We are pair of artists and sailors. Agnes, who’s based in sculpture field and Błażej who is a painter.
Since 2017 we are owners of SY "Snufkin" - 40 years old, 9 meters long sailing boat. We made a
journey around the Europe, from England (Atlantic) to Spain on Meditarenean Sea. We also travel a
bit on Southern Atlantic, on polish expedition sailing boat (bigger one). Our art practice is highly
influenced by our journeys. Ocean travels we made were full of adventures, but the most relevant
thing is, that relation with sea is deeply changing perspective of life. To provoke new observations
we planned to make atlantic circle this year, but life changed our plans and Covid19 made our
calendar, not us. Like in first rule of traveling and sailing - you have to be open for new conditions.
Trapped in city for a while, we decide to make project about long distance ocean journey, to create
publication which is going to be kind of alternative - visual sailor’s loogbook. This is our proposition
for Biennale Sur - zine „ A man who was an island”. The two elements we’d like to include in our
publication are: atmosphere of such trip and state of mind of people who decided to spend the long
time on boat, which is in many ways similar to Covid lockdown. This notebook/ booklet form we
chose is related to travel, to explorers journals full of their discoveries, exactly like as our’s
sketchbooks. We think about this also as a trace of situation in which in 2020 „everybody were an
islands”.