Monika Sosnowska (born 1972 in Ryki, Poland)<\/p>\n <> Monika Sosnowska: Habitat at Contemporary Austin, Jones Center A fallen oak thrusts branches to the sky, There is perhaps no stronger iconography of the Polish landscape than its forests, laden with beauty and witness to great atrocities. The ruinous trees illustrated by the Polish poet Adam Mickiewicz refer to the Bia\u0142owie\u017ca Forest, a vast, dark, and mythical forest, or puszcza, on the border between Poland and Belarus. As Mickiewicz\u2019s words portray images of curved, bent, and broken branches\u2014whose entangled forms evoke crumbling buildings and memories of past battles\u2014so trees become metaphorical carriers of memory in the landscape. But Mickiewicz\u2019s words could just as easily describe the work of Monika Sosnowska (Polish, born 1972 in Ryki, Poland). Based in Warsaw since 2000, Sosnowska lives across the street from another forest, this one home to a Jewish cemetery that was destroyed during the Second World War, as the Germans used its headstones for construction works. Shortly thereafter, the Polish people planted many of the trees that compose the current woods and began an initiative to restore the cemetery to its previous state, a project that continues today.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n See<\/a> more via Aspen art museum<\/a><\/p>\n Pinterest <\/a><\/p>\n Here is another Polish artist Monika Gryzmala who works in Germany. Robert Morris \u2018Refractions\u2019<\/a>![\"austinhabitamonikasosnowska\"](\"http:\/\/www.mutanteggplant.com\/vitro-nasu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/AustinHabitaMonikasosnowska-e1483810871895.jpg\")
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\nLike a huge building, from which overgrown
\nProtrude the broken shafts and walls o\u2019erthrown.
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