THREE COLORS

This collection of short essays, poems and artworks locate the trauma, joys and impacts of inhabiting the roles of grieving daughter, overwhelmed mother and creative spirit. Maciesz uses Krsytof Kieslowski’s seminal Three Colours Trilogy as a loose structure around which to orient her own life’s connections. The movies release, the fall of the Soviet Union, the end of her parent’s marriage and her 7th birthday all coincided in a Geo-political, creative and personal paradigm shift she is continually unraveling. These excerpts are from her memoirs in progress.

Blue maps the stories of Maciesz’s coming of age in the Polish diaspora of 1980’s New York. In her Maritime Museum we see a memoir of addiction, grief and the beautiful and sometimes wrenching results of using art to cope with trauma.

In Red we experience the physical and philosophical transition into Motherhood through poetry, prose and infographic painting making explicit the labor involved with care work. Red leads us into the real activist spaces Maciesz created to bring visibility to the otherwise undervalued work of mothering.

White is a space for the deeply saturated glimpses of a life not contained by Maciesz’s identities of daughter or mother.