Adam Panczuk – Karczeby

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www.adampanczuk.pl

“In one of the dialects spoken in the east of Poland, which is a mixture of Polish and Belorussian, people strongly attached to the soil they had been cultivating for generations were called ‘Karczeby’. With their bare hands Karczeby cleared forests in order to grow crops. The word karczeb was also used to describe what remains after a tree is cut down — a trunk with roots, which remains stuck in the ground. This also applied to people — it was not easy for the authorities to root them out from their land, even in the Stalinism times. The price they paid for their attachment to their soil was often their freedom or life. After death, buried nearby their farmland, a karczeb himself became the soil, later cultivated by his descendants.”

more images and other interesting projects on Adam Panczuk’s website

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Response to Adam Panczuk – Karczeby

  1. rusii au o vorba” pora k zemle privykati” – “e timpul sa te obisnuiesti cu pamintul” well se cam potriveste.

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