Memoir: Mikołaj Maciaszek

Mikołaj Maciaszek remembers his time as a small child in Poland in this visual memory series. The Toronto-based artist moved to Canada at the age of five, and now works in newspaper, magazine and comic book illustration.  I found these wonderful works while browsing for inspiration for The Art House Co-op’s Memoir Project.

I remember my bear Miś, and the big stuffed orangutan Małpa żuta, and my huge collection of tin cars and plastic knights. I would use the contours and patterns of the rug as roads. – Memories 1992

I remember running errands with my mom and rushing through the old town square. Sometimes, particularly this one time, on a rainy day there was a man that would stand in front of the obelisk of the King, he would use a rope in between two sticks to create enormous soap bubbles.

I remember going mushroom picking in the woods with my grandmother, and the time she told me of a place called Toronto. She described glass sky scrapers like from the future, and that I would be there one day. At that point I haven’t met my dad yet, but he was here, pushing around an illegal hot dog stand.

The full memory series on Behance, here.