My work traces the doubling that is experienced by one who is not from here. Since I have come to the U.S. from Poland, I have been interested in the ideas of family, of roots, of home, and of loss. These ideas seem on the one hand to speak of absence, of something that is missing. On the other hand, life continues, roots grow in new soil, new homes are built. This is the experience of the foreigner, the stranger: to experience all things as present and yet as traces of something that cannot be made present. I do not want to uncover the sadness of loss. I am more interested in showing how such loss makes up who we are.

Maybe all photography is self-portrait. In this sense, my photography is always a kind of self-exploration. My digital collages construct images of myself, my family, and my roots that I have not found looking through the camera. But if I can find myself in others, then others can certainly find themselves in my images

My hope is not to give rise to nostalgia. This is why it is important for me not to photograph exclusively in Poland or in the U.S. My hope is to give rise to the inability to return to the past, to return home, even though the past makes us who we are and home makes us what we are. This is the strange doubling that makes it impossible to answer the question "Where are you from?"