The Chinese proverb says:
"If you want to be happy one day - get drunk,
If you want to be happy one week - marry,
If you want to be happy whole life - create a garden."

Allotment gardens in European cities were built more than two hundred years ago to help charity for the poorest families. The idea of allotment gardening was born in Germany. Allotment gardening movement also embraced other industrialized countries: England, France, Belgium, the Netherlands, Austria, Luxembourg, Sweden, Norway, Denmark, Switzerland, the Czech Republic and Slovakia as well as Poland. In the days of the First and Second World War, even during the crisis years of the 30's and in severe post-war years the cultivation allotment gardens gave European cities residents a chance to survive. The idea of allotments in Poland has been known for over a hundred years. In Poland, postwar communist era, for several million people living in blocks, own plot not only provide the average family dietary supplement but also gave a sense of normalcy, offering everyone the right to own a small home and enjoy a private garden. Poland currently has nearly 5,000 family allotments located in city centers. The gardens complement deficiencies recreational areas, favorably alter the microclimate, are a rich habitat for flora and fauna, a meeting place for the community, promote a healthy lifestyle, activities, in keeping with the modern concept of sustainable development. Today Family Allotment Gardens in Poland (in polish: rodzinne ogrody działkowe - short rod) are called by the people facetious Rhodes (in polish: Rodos), because like the Greek island are synonymous with happiness. My pictures show wickets to these gardens, exit, which spiritually moving people in a better, more beautiful place their own gardens.

 

Photo series are printed on paper Super Matt 210g / m2 technique Giclee.

The cycle has been prepared for the exhibition "Exit", the idea of an Italian curator Anna Mola, for the gallery Imperium Artis in Rome.