I have always been a collector. Many people live without books and “things”. I find this curious. Someone once said, “When we are sad – it can be comforting to cling to familiar things that don’t change.” Maybe that’s why.
Familiar things
Fragments of the lives and feelings experienced by members of Leicester’s Jewish and Polish communities are brought to light in this online exhibition through photographs they share with each other in an attempt to reconnect with their interrelated history and culture. Recovering Connections interweaves their visual impressions, reflections as well as individual and communal heritage, demonstrating the deep relationship between two communities who live in the same city but only rarely encounter one another.
Recovering Connections 