We Miss What We Miss

Site-specific permanent installation. Work in the Poznań Visual Park refers in its character to the artist's other projection works. This time, however, it is not projection in the literal sense of the word. The author uses luminophoric substances in the form of small stones, arranged around the trunk of a broken, dead tree in a mosaic drawing, reproducing the negative, glowing shadow of the same tree in its state of bloom. The juxtaposition of the dead trunk and the "mark of the tree's memory", visible at night, is profoundly meaningful, a poignant commentary on our relationship with nature, its transience and degradation, as well as broader existential issues. The additional nocturnal spectacle of the appearance of the image of the tree's shadow ends at dawn with its slow glowing disappearance, to bring back again the white stones visibility among the grass in the meadow surrounding the lone trunk. D. Lejman's work, an apparent projection which is a non-invasive site-specific intervention, is a testimony to the artist's philosophy of the presence of art in public space, understood not as a creation of new, material objects, but rather as a reinterpretation of the existing environment, enabling the viewer to see what is familiar in a new light.