of time, lost
of time, lost
let me tell you something about desire…
I long for dark rooms.
Crumbling architecture, peeling wallpaper, floors
Polished by years of use.
Dim light.
Mirrors darkened with time,
suspended in silence.
I long for empty rooms.
The residue of emotion contained
within.
Remnants.
Traces of passage,
Forgotten, like wilted bouquets.
I long for silence.
When absence and presence collide,
Emotions unexpressed.
Like forgotten photographs,
And silver teapots,
Tarnished and abandoned in haste.
All the memories,
Wrapped in tissue paper,
Fragile
and left behind.
All the books gone,
The shelves empty.
–EMZ
Author
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Ewa Monika Zebrowski is a Montreal based photographer whose work touches on the themes of displacement and memory, time and place, the traces we leave behind. She creates visual narratives often inspired by literature, sometimes collaborating with writers and poets. Born in London, England, the daughter of Polish immigrants, she worked in the film industry for 17 years before obtaining a BFA in Fine Arts and an MFA in Visual Arts, from Concordia and UQAM, in Montreal, Quebec. Zebrowski has had twenty solo shows, produced thirteen artist's books and won numerous awards. Her photographic work and artist's books can be found in many public and private collections including the collections of the Musee d'Art Contemporain de Montreal, the Art Gallery of Ontario, the Center for Book Arts New York,the Cirque du Soleil, the National Library of Canada, the Bibliothèque Nationale de France, the Bibliothèque Nationale du Québec, the National Museum of Women in the Arts, the Canadian Center for Architecture, Tate Britain, the Farnsworth Art Museum as well as many universities and colleges including Berkeley, Brown University, Columbia University, Lafayette College, Stanford University, Mills College, Smith College, the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Toronto, the University of Washington, Wellesley College, and Yale University.
