Tour de wonderland

In my childhood - in the grey, communist Polish reality - the colorful USA has always seemed to me a beautiful, perfect place, beyond reach for me. The world which, as a child, I used to know only from films or TV programs. Everything there seemed to be utterly different from my everyday reality; houses, cars, streets and people. And the unique, the most outstanding in the world landscape.

I only managed to visit the US when I was an adult. With my own eyes I saw then the places that perfectly reflected the plans from the movies watched as a child. I decided to record the photos from the trip with a plastic camera on out-of-date medium format film. Thanks to this, the captured images through blurs, faded colors and out-of-focus reflect my feelings at the time of my encounter with the US - a country that until recently in my imagination existed only on artificial filmstrips.