Warsaw (2022)

San Clemente, USA

Acrylic paint on wood panel, 40x50 cm.

In April 1976, while returning from Moscow to West Berlin, David Bowie had a short lay-over in Warsaw. He got out of the train and walked around the city, famously visiting a local bookstore where he bought recordings of Polish folk songs. A year later, he put out a record chronicling his struggles with cocaine addiction called ‘Low’, considered by many to be the most bleak albums of his career. ‘Warszawa’ is a songs on that record. It is eerie and uncanny, and like no other perfectly captures the soul of my city.