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Time-Space Sightseeing Trip

2025

Guide Czasoprzestrzenna Podróż Krajoznawcza. Okolice Baranowa [Time-Space Sightseeing Trip: The Baranów Area] is the result of a research project focused on the site where Poland’s Central Communication Port is planned to be built. The publication premiered on July 19, 2025, at Pracownia Wschodnia in Warsaw during the closing event of the exhibition Conceptual Future Tense: The CPK and Its Environs. The book is the third volume in the Regional Explorations Notebooks series by Dar Dobryszyc. It is available for purchase from the publisher’s online store (in Polish only).

The publication contains a collection of historical materials, stories, poems, speculations, images, maps, comics, and photographs. The content was prepared in collaboration with Małgorzata Gurowska, Piotr Puldzian Płucienniczak, Anna Siekierska, and Agata Szydłowska. It also features press clippings collected by Karol Trammer, poems by Teofil Lenartowicz and Julian Przyboś, paintings by Józef Chełmoński, and photographs by Damien Brailly, Mikołaj Chylak, and Eryk Nowak.

“Zeszyt krajoznawczy nr 3” [Regional Explorations Notebook No. 3] and a fragment of Józef Chełmoński’s painting “Babie lato” [Indian Summer], in which a woman in a white dress looks up at the sky and catches a spider’s web.
Front and back covers of the publication. The inscription “Zeszyt krajoznawczy nr 3” [Regional Explorations Notebook No. 3] on the front and the list of the authors on the back; underneath, a fragment of Józef Chełmoński’s painting “Babie lato” [Indian Summer], in which a woman in a white dress looks up at the sky and catches a spider web. In the background of the image, a black dog sits with its back turned.
The cover features Józef Chełmoński’s painting Babie lato [Indian Summer] from 1875. The painter was associated with the villages of Kuklówka and Radziejowice, located in vicinity of Baranów.

Close-up of a comic printed in green. In the foreground, cartoon portraits of the authors of the publication.

In addition to editing and designing the volume, I also published an introduction in the form of a comic strip, a short story entitled Most [Bridge] about a worker building a crossing over the Pisia Gągolina River in August 1939, a poem entitled Cierpki Panegiryk. Krajanom! [A Bitter Eulogy to My Countrymen], and photos of several nearby investment ruins.

Like other Regional Explorations Notebooks from Dar Dobryszyc series, Time-Space Sightseeing Trip: The Baranów Area was also printed using the riso technique. The basic color pallete includes green and blue, but the publication has been enriched with inserts and stickers in various colors: a fold-out map, colour photographs, and black-and-white postcards.

A spread from the zine, a fragment of a folded map visible on the right.
A spread from the zine, a fragment of an unfolded map visible on the right.

A spread from the zine – view of the last page and third page of the cover. Black-and-white postcards lie on the open publication.

A spread from the zine depicting the table of contents.
A spread from the zine presenting a photo of a chimney on the left and text on the right.
A spread from the zine, with text on the left and a photo of a car with the coat of arms of the village of Jaktorów on the right.
A spread from the zine with text on the left and a photo of a river with car tires floating on it on the right.

Close-up of the publication showing text and a green-blue photograph.

On the one hand, this publication can be read as a guide to the Baranów area. On the other hand, it offers a universal story about the changes that occur across space and time. These changes arise from the development, but also from degradation of infrastructure, as well as from environmental and cultural processes. They take place in many places around us—not only in the Baranów region, which may at first glance seem bland and unremarkable.