The concept of this film was created in May 2020. I even planned to use this idea in my major project, but after the first presentation of the concept in early January, it was not well received. A friend who works for ARTE TV convinced me that I should continue the idea with scarves and quotes from my books and with hats shaped like houses to symbolize - home is with you wherever you want to be. And below a few sentences that will be at the end of the book as an epilogue, that my friend wrote.
Travel memo
I met Margo a few years ago in Ireland. I was in the process of making a movie about whales. While waiting to meet the king of the ocean, I felt cold and decided to return to the hotel. At the lamppost I saw a woman setting up a tripod, her flowing skirt dancing in the wind. I was close when she was about to take the picture, her face was suddenly covered with a scarf, which also started to dance, and then the woman loudly said - wiernoska! (sounded like a curse). Convinced she was Russian, I walked over and spoke in Russian. She pushed back the scarf, replied that she was Polish, and looked at my cold nose as if at least it had been broken in several places. Without hesitating, she pulled a thermos of tea out of a cavernous bag. And before I told her that I was also Polish, I was already cared for... Why am I quoting this picture? Because she later hosted me at home. I was touching her objects, reading poems, watching her baking a cake, talking to her husband, browsing hundreds of her photos, feeling how she was experiencing what she creates with words and images. I watched what made her laugh, what made her sad. I know what hurt her, I know what she loves. And now she has squeezed it all into one coherent traveling picture. Małgorzata was born to feed the sensitive - refined gentleness, tenderness, beauty, uniqueness down to the smallest detail. A book with poems that travels through various worlds is nothing more than an eccentric journey for people who are not deeply rooted in realism. A collage of all kinds of moments. Home and heart in a never-ending journey, winged personality, awareness in the eternal journey, this above all connects me with Małgorzata herself and her works. My self, the granddaughter of the displaced people, who reached distant places as colonists, but unfortunately had to leave the borderlands, understands this greatly. Małgorzata is my sister, we fly together and drift in the oceans with the wind in search of peace.
Agata Patralska-Obarewicz
