The Unfolding Spell Of Peonies

100×100 cm, oils & mixed media on stretched canvas

From a veil of fog, peonies bloom through silence as memories becoming light. They carry the pulse of something both lost and found to remind us that beauty unfolds even through what fades. That every heart, like a peony, must open to both dawn and dusk.

Embedded within the layers of paint, the words of Leopold Staff’s “Kochać i tracić” breathe like a hidden prayer:

Kochać i tracić,
pragnąć i żałować,
padać boleśnie
i znów się podnosić,
krzyczeć tęsknocie “precz!”
i błagać “prowadź!”,
oto jest życie,
nic, a jakże dosyć…

ENG:

To love and to lose,
to desire and to regret,
to fall painfully
and to get up again,
to shout to the longing “go away!”
and to beg it “lead me!”,
this is life,
nothing, but so enough…