For 53 years I have been existing in this world. For 53 years I have been living among books. For 45 years I have been reading books. For 34 years I have been writing books. For 32 years I have been drumming, recording and playing concerts with different groups in different countries. For 30 years I have not been studying architecture. For 19 years I have been translating different books from different languages. For 15 years I have had computers and printers. For 14 years I have been living in a small village right at the foot of The Bald Mountains, in central Poland, in the land of extinct witches where the zero point of the spiral calendar could be the year when Ts’ai Lun had produced paper good for writing. For 14 years I have been Christine's husband. For 13 years I have been Sabina’s father. For 8 year I have been making wooden boxes for my books. I do not make paper, but maybe one day I will begin. Sometimes I design different things: posters, CD-covers, booklets, gardens, exhibitions...
I am not bored.


My books are in National Library in Warsaw, Book Art Museum in Lodz, Lodz University Library, Stanford University Library, Wexford Arts Centre, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Flaxman Library), The New York Public Library, The British Library, Canadian Centre for Architecture, The Danish Museum of Art and Design, Kielce Province Library and in private collections in Poland and abroad. I have shown them on many exhibitions, fairs and festivals of normal and unnormal books in Poland and abroad (Ireland, England, USA, Germany, Holland, Denmark, Slovakia, Bulgaria, Belorus, Israel, Hungary, Belgium, Sweden, Finland, Korea).

All works necessary to make a book I do by myself at home: I imagine, write, draw, translate, edit, design, print, bind. I have made more than a dozen titles so far - all together more than 400 copies and each one is numbered and signed. Editions are drastically limited due to my technical possibilities, not to general assumptions or ideology - I’m not (what a pity) a hundredhand monster.

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