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He deliberately rejects the classic beauty of the form for the sake of fragility, transience or simply greater sensitivity to what is present. His work has a mockery and ironic character. He looks critically and with great apprehension at Poland, he does it from the perspective of an emigrant, from culturally and socially different Netherlands, which became a new homeland for him.

— Tomasz Vetulani

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Art is just like the languages that people use: each one opens up different possibilities, different layers of sensitivity and expression.

In Poland, many doctors would not undertake euthanasia due to religious beliefs. The Dutch are more pragmatic, and death is not a great taboo for them, but part of the natural order of things.

I would feel unhappy in a country with whose law and morals I disagree.

I began drawing when I was one and a half years old. I never stopped.

I am fascinated by the fear of terrorism in Poland, when people die on the roads every day – and every year there are thousands of people who lose their lives in a very stupid way.

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