“The focus is on two items: a TV set and an old, rusty amphore next to it. We can hear a TV host discussing the influence of technology on the modern society. We can feel the stillness that emanates from the ancient object. There is something sublime about their juxtaposition, since the presented objects – in spite of the physical proximity – could not be more distant from each other. The flat screen and the voices it emits seem trite when confronted with the mysterious artifact. The scene presents itself as an invitation to withdraw from the realm of technology and the crude affairs of contemporary life. For there are greater stakes: there is Time, there is Life-As-Such, there is History. And yet, there is something not quite serious – something playful – about the described setting. As the camera zooms on the vase, the object becomes unfamiliar at first. We can see dried-out algae and mussels that stuck to its surface on the sea bottom. It seems organic, almost endowed with its own life. Upon closer inspection, though, other details become visible – like the small rifts that were left on clay by an ancient’s hand. Now the vase does not lurk from the dark depths of Being any longer. It does not invite us to ponder about the passing time; it is no longer distant from the TV host. To the contrary, it is strikingly present and ridicules Larger Affairs. Although, placed in the center of the video frame, the item still provides distraction from the TV anchor’s techno-talk, it suddenly strikes the viewer as the utmost embodiment of technicity itself.”

– Arkadiusz Półtorak