The project was an attempt to raise awareness of the fluid boundary between what is private and what is public. It is taking place in a location that is particularly rich in meaning and context: a public space in the city center where the energy that fuels the societal machinery of imitation is concentrated and constantly circulating.

In the center of this common area, there appeared a readily visible area that (seemingly) belonged to a different culture, but which contained universal and symbolic items that anyone can easily recognize, regardless of their social and cultural background: stones, a chair/seat, a light/lamp. Each of these items was enclosed within spiraling circles that have been raked in fine gravel – as in a Zen garden. The stone garden delivered a shock in the form of reflection about traveling to a place anywhere in the world-image. The point at which one can travel anywhere in the world is often associated with unlimited freedom.

The placement of the installation in such a highly concentrated location, where people move about uncontrolled in a chaotic and unpredictable manner, led us momentarily to keep drifting and uncertain ontologies focused in a single point. This point was illuminated. The light showed the way, it was a symbol of knowledge. The spiral circles around the chair and stones combine what is private and what is universal. The true path is always spiraling. In the light illuminating it, there is a hidden eye…

Zbigniew Herbert wrote about stones that they: “… cannot be tamed, to the end they will look at us with a calm and very clear eye…”
Piotr Kurka, Poznan 2012