As with many teenagers, I had dreams of becoming a musician. Back in Poland, the romantic songs of Marek Grechuta, the rock band Czerwone Gitary, and the haunting melodies of Czesław Niemen had a huge impact on me. My musical inspirations continued in Canada. In the...
As the world sleeps, I am awake, enchanted by the pulsing, multicoloured lights vibrating outside my window. I imagine that I alone, am dancing with the Aurora. It’s winter of 1970, Sopot, Poland, and beneath the covers with a flashlight in hand, I read “The...
I have received more questions regarding the process for creating the illustrations for The Spirit Journey, so I am dedicating this Blog entirely to collaging. In fact, I will start from the very beginning when I began experimenting with the art of collage way back in...
Perhaps you noticed, now that you are following The Spirit Journey, that the illustrations recently switched from good ol’ black and white, into colour. Folks in Poland who are familiar with Christa’s cartoons, would remember when his black and white...
I remember being a small child, waiting impatiently for my dad to arrive home with the local newspaper Wieczór Wybrzeża. I wished to see the very bottom of the back page, where a section was devoted to Christa’s cartoons. Now I’m 9, and finally big enough... 