Alchemical Distillation
My attitude is best defined by the words of the poet (...) Rainer Maria Rilke: ‘And I, who want to grow, / Look inside, and in me grows a tree’ [‘O, der ich wachsen will, ich seh hinaus, und in mir wächst der Baum’] The alchemists supposed that the perfection of the self must be accompanied by the regeneration of nature. Planting trees in Lusławice, where I have found the haven of my Odyssey, my Ithaca, I feel as if I am purifying myself, approaching the essence of myself and the essence of music.