ERNA HELENA ANIA (Art edition of 45)
Tomasz Laczny
ERNA HELENA ANIA (Art edition of 45)
Photographs: Tomasz Laczny
Publisher: Tomasz Laczny and BLOW UP PRESS
70 pages
Pictures: 24 photos and 51 illustrations
Year: 2021
ISBN: 978-83-952840-7-6
Price: 380 €
Comments: Softcover, clothbound and slipcase 22 x 16cm. With one unique A5 Cyanotype tanned in coffee on Fabriano Artistico paper (100% cotton, chlorine and acid free paper), edition of 45 copies, signed and stamped. Text in English. Printing & binding by Tomasz Laczny (100% handmade).
This handmade art edition is printed on Hahnemühle Black paper using gold Risograph Printing technique alongside inkjet prints printed on Japanese Kozo paper. It includes one unique A5 Cyanotype tanned in coffee on Fabriano Artistico paper (100% cotton, chlorine and acid free paper), signed. The book is housed in a slipcase.The book is available in a limited edition of 45 copies, numbered and signed.
Winner of the 2020 BUP Book Award
The true story of a mother's love for her daughter, inscribed in the history of the end of the World War II and its aftermath, told by a grandson, in whose life its elements sound echo like.
The end of the WWII. Polish-German borderland. A young German woman falls in love with a Polish guy. Back then, this kind of relationship between enemies was prohibited: both of them could be killed, if that would be discovered. Moreover, she gets pregnant and is hiding her pregnancy. After the war, she is imprisoned in the camp for Germans. She gives birth to the author’s mum but, because of her poor conditions, is not able to raise her and has to give her away.
The European borders were changed after the WWII by the decision of a few key political figures and almost all Germans were expelled (the largest forced migration in history). The woman, hoping to be reunited with her daughter, decided to stay but had to gain Polish nationality. For her, as ex-German, life in Poland was extremely difficult. She lived in the shadow of guilt and memories of what had happened in Poland during the WWII. All her family had been expelled. And it took many years for her to be with her daughter together again.
Tomasz Laczny: “The story of my grandmother is a story about losing identity, family, and country in the face of traumatic historic events. It represents the situation of many people and nations finding themselves struggling with finding their own identity after the war in the shadow of Nazism.Ironically, the story of my grandmother unfolds some similarities with my own. Living abroad for many years I experienced disconnection and isolation and struggled with finding my new identity. Also, there is the story of the absence of my daughter who I haven't seen for almost 3 years now.”
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