There is an undeniable fear of the past that haunts Dobrodzien as it tries to launch itself into the future. But it is a past that we must hold on to. Is it too late to cure this fear? Can the past perhaps be confronted at Bzionkow? The abandoned estate is a place in need of care. We propose that the ruins be covered by new enclosures so that they can become inhabitable - so that the space between old and new becomes occupiable as the translucent shells look to the future, the aged brick walls keep on living as witnesses of the past. And for whom would this place be more suited than the rapidly increasing elderly population? Like Silesia's different pasts, like the ruins of Bzionkow, the elderly are storehouses of memory in need of care. And what about the children? Are they not in need of care as well? Nothing is truly removed from Bzionkow during the renovation. Everything is documented, as in these collages, and will be stored in the horse barn. The hope is the things removed will not be seen as waste, but as a material archive of the site's history that resist the collective amnesia that comes with preservation.

|in collaboration with Maur Dessauvage and Michael Raspuzzi|