The longer I manage the www.adammazek.com blog, the more I see time contemplation in it.
I wrote the “Time contemplation” text on the 21st of December, 2024. I’ve been managing my blog since the 1st of September, 2017. Moreover, since October 2015, I’ve been doing street photography regularly. This practice has given me a unique perspective on the passage of time. I’ve never had more than nine or seven years of perspective towards many things connected with my hobby, starting with analyzing my mundane surroundings while taking photos on Warsaw’s streets and ending with reading and confronting my thoughts and texts from the past.
For example, buildings or places that bore me a few years ago because I saw them for the umpteenth time but which are now gone forever excite me when I see them in my photos from the past.
Similar cases are found with, for example, trees. My favorite, from a photographic point of view, is the tree that is situated near Zwirki i Wigury and Woronicza Street. Perhaps I will create a separate set of pictures regarding this old, dying tree. The truth is that for many years, I have not paid attention to it. Still, one day, I noticed it was struck by the thunder and fell down. As usual, for me, it was a perfect moment to capture this struck tree. I do not remember precisely when it happened.
Still, until today, this tree is still lying and rotting slowly.
Every time I walk nearby, I take a photo of it. Sooner or later, when it is gone (perhaps the cleansing department will get rid of this tree), I will be ready to prepare a separate set of pictures with a dying and rotting tree as the main actor. That’s how I contemplate time not only on my blog but also thanks to doing street photography. I wonder how the capital of Poland will change within the next 50 years, and if I can actively witness this process by taking photos until my death.
