I've been thinking a lot lately about why I make art, and why mosaics.

I left Poland when I was 19. I left because I didn’t see any perspectives for me there. I couldn't afford to go to university and I didn’t have support from my family.

I started a new life in The Netherlands. I followed the “right” steps: I graduated, I found a job, I was in a committed relationship, I was keeping busy advancing my career and earning my worth. I did what was expected of me and at the same time I felt more and more broken inside. I felt like a little island in the middle of an ocean. I felt lost.

I was disconnected from my body, from my country, in my job, in my relationship. It was my way to protect myself from being hurt, but ultimately it made things only harder.

I was so fed up that I decided to follow that little voice in my head that told me to quit my job and move to Italy to study mosaics. To become a mosaic artist.

I left behind everything and everyone I knew, and spent the next three years in a small Italian town perfecting my hammer skills and learning about mosaics from the best in the field. After graduation I returned to Amsterdam where I founded my studio.

I love mosaics because of its calm and meditative process. My art is very intuitive but at the same time it is very deliberate through the rhythm, movement and pattern. Each mosaic is unique. It’s a collection of various elements where each piece has its purpose. There’s no room for judgement.

I connect the pieces in order to stay grounded and to feel reconnected to myself and to the world around me. My work is not about the brokenness. It’s about all of us - little islands, little fragments floating in the universe. And although we might feel lost sometimes, we are made to belong.