Poetry and Prose

A series of poems about fashion, paving stones, and history written predominantly in simple, mnemonic rhyme using hand embroidery technique on fabric. 

As her career developed, Drożyńska started making works in which she moved away from craftsmanship and turned to creating variations with the use of multiple kinds of stitching. She also developed her own stitch, which is a combination of tacking/basting and backstitching. She called it the anarchist stitch. It is a combination of the simplest stitches and breaks all the laws of craftsmanship. She used this technique in works from the series Black on White, Poetry or Prose, Friends, and Embroidery On the Go. 

In The Perfect Phantom of Fear, or Embroidering the New Normal, an essay published in Przekrój, Stach Szabłowski wrote: 

“In Poetry or Prose, Drożyńska embroidered a stream of consciousness: Wstawanie. Wyzwanie. Śniadanie. Konanie. Dziecka. Odprowadzanie. Żyłowanie. Przyprowadzanie. Zdychanie. Wychodzenie. Cierpienie. Pitów. Składanie. Dogorywanie. Prania. Wywieszanie. [Rising. Challenging. Breakfasting. Dying. Child. To School Walking. Tiring. From School Walking. Dying. Leaving. Suffering. Taxes. Filing. Dying. Washing. Hanging.]

This embroidered diary-litany continues for as long as there is some space left on the fabric. The piece was created before the pandemic, but after all, everyday life just carried on. What genre best describes the daily routine during the pandemic era, during which, confined to our homes, we went about our days more intensely than usual? Poetry? Drama? Or prose, which took on even more genre-related weight?”