#podlasie

let's hear it for public art from Białystok, Hajnówka, Czeremcha and Sitawka!

Kawelin - allegedly named so after a Russian officer who lived in Białystok and was ugly as hell

Andrejkow's deskals (murals on wood) are based on photos of real inhabitants of the villages; more deskals from Sitawka with info about the people depicted here (in PL)

Alfons Karny was a Polish sculptor who rescued art pieces in Warsaw during ww2

the mural in Czeremcha was """controversial""" and got vandalized because it depicts a diverse society, one of the characters is wearing a rainbow shirt, and also it alludes to a painting by Anna Grzymała entitled "Take off the uniform, apologize to your mother". so, predictably, the far right clowns weren't the biggest fans of it

wiuga: wichura (pod Krasnystawem)

propaganda: moja babcia tak mówiła, ona urodziła się na wołyniu, ale dorastała w rejowcu pod chełmem. moja mama tak mówi i ja też, ale jej siostra i jej dzieci już nie. dla mnie dobra bo rzadkie i trochę onomatopeiczne.

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Equinox and aurora, northern Poland, 2026.