Thousand Plateaus
Through a combination of documentary and experimental photography, the series focuses on domestic interiors, urban landscapes, and intimate gestures, framing them as both sites of shelter and markers of displacement, longing, and transformation. The project takes its name from Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari’s A Thousand Plateaus (1980), a philosophical text that understands life, identity, and space as non-linear, interconnected, and constantly evolving. The project translates this thinking into an analogue photographic exploration of home as layered, unstable, and fluid.
I left Poland as a child in 2001 without speaking English, creating a lasting rupture with my family, home, culture, and language—one I continue to carry, shaping an ongoing search for belonging. Drawing on my experience as a Polish queer immigrant photographer, the work examines how memory, migration, and community influence feelings of attachment and estrangement.