# Project Description Dissecting Polish Culture and Tradition : Heritage Beth Momot Summary Final work My name is Beth Momot, I am a Queer, England born, Polish national working in the UK, Now I focus my practice on Queer issues specifically Trans rights as well as my polish heritage and my relation to it. My final project is about that very relationship. Instagram: @art.beth.momot My name is Beth Momot, I am a Queer, England born, Polish national working in the UK, Now I focus... College School of Pre-Degree Studies Course UAL Foundation Diploma in Art and Design Graduation year 2025 I was born in England, and I have lived in England all my life, but I am still a polish national, I have a polish passport and visited Poland every other year, yet I often don’t fully identify with that part of my identity. Only when I started making work on the concept earlier in the year and started thinking more deeply around how polish culture is a part of me and how it influences me constantly without me even knowing it. In this project I explored Polish culture and tradition and tried to find myself in it, I did this by looking at polish folklore as well as traditional Polish ceremonies such as the "drowning of Marzanna" Which I focused on in this project. Throughout the project I looked at Polish artists such as Radek Szlaga and Marek Sobczyk, as well as looking at contemporary artists like Noah Davis I also looked at ideas around effigy's such as Iconoclasms through the book “iconoclasm: Contested Objects, Contested Terms (Subject/Object: New Studies in Sculpture)" all which informed my practice and my understanding of this project. Final work Eksploracja polskiej tradycji - Marzanna (exploration of polish tradition - Marzanna) My main piece is around the "drowning of Marzanna" a polish end of winter effigy, which is the symbolic burning of Marzanna the pagan god of winter and death and then the subsequent drowning of her in a river. I explored this tradition by creating a straw man representing Marzanna just like in Poland, I also linked this to England by participating in this effigy with some of my English friends in England, therefore bringing the celebration here and taking it out of its original context in Poland. I then took images of the burning and I use them as a collage to create the final piece. I used acrylic paint, oil paint, oil pastels and soft pastels. Research and process Digital experimentation of how I would continue the project. I wanted to demonstrate how I would continue my project further if I has more time before the deadline, this is a example of a digital collage I made from my own images of things I find relate to Poland for me, such as my grandmas nit jumper which made up the polish flag . Earlier painting of Marzanna The painting is on a smaller canvas and I used Oil paints and acrylic paints, I used two different images which I edited of the Marzanna effigy to create this piece. Share this project I was born in England, and I have lived in England all my life, but I am still a polish national, I have a polish passport and visited Poland every other year, yet I often don’t fully identify with that part of my identity. Only when I started making work on the concept earlie... A link to this page has been added to your clipboard Browse related work Identity Community Tradition FineArt Painting Drawing MixedMedia Collage