On deception, perception, and the hidden structures of storytelling.
Read essays :
- Gen Wilting/Unbothered – What a wilting rose emoji taught me about my generation
- Femme Vitale – Dressed in the Poison
- On Being Nowhere – On soft fascination, and the rest that comes from asking nothing
- What a Fucked Up Time to Be Alive – On prediction error, and why some jokes arrive late
- Joy, Unrationed – On dogs, and what we ration without noticing
- Red – On the painter Agata Chmielewska, and the one canvas that won’t behave
- It’s Already Inside – TROJA’26 doesn’t need to lie to get in
- Don’t Look Away – Czarnobyl doesn’t want you to feel comfortable
- Czy Mogę Prosić – On ordering coffee, and the stranger who orders it for you
- The Palace and the Cube – On a ‘gift’ nobody wanted, a quiet cube, and the strange emotional economy of architecture
- Under an Etruscan Sky – On lightning, the Etruscans, and the difference between feeling a storm and reading one
- The Birthmark That Isn’t One – Or on the urge to invent a person
- Caught Mid-Sentence – Notes on suspension, strangers, and what travel does to your sense of self
- The Saint Who Stole Midsummer – On the double power of a palimpsest
- Two Red Petals – On petals, platforms, and the stories we can’t help telling
- The Fourth Colour – On tetrachromacy, the norm, and the people the test wasn’t built to find
- The Spoon That Outlived Its World – On objects, absence, and perceptual curiosity
- The Wine Survived. The Cities Survived. The Words Didn’t. – On Etruscans, untranslatable things, and a very angry professor
- Roasted with Honey and Poppy Seeds – Reader, they ate the dormice!
- The Wall That Wouldn’t Give Up – On authorship, ownership, and a green tag that had the last word
- My Tooth, Your Tooth, Our Tooth – A Brief History of Dental Suffering Across 60,000 Years
- Now Go To Sleep – Or: what we lost when we made fairy tales kind
- On Kitsch and the Problem with Beauty – Or: what happens when you’ve been waiting
- The Oldest Impulse – What my first pot taught me about mark-making
- Looking Up – On feathers, angels, and what we bring to what we see
- The Pinocchio Effect – When AI Learns to Lie About Being Alive
AGA LESIEWICZ 