Joanna Rajkowska

It went neglected and leafless two years later, until the artist and friends mounted its restoration.

She also completed the Studio Semester Program at the State University of New York, U.S.

[1] Rajkowska describes the sense of her activity as building relationships with other people.

In another way, the palm tree refers to a popular idiomatic expression in the Polish language (Polish: palma odbija – literally: "the palm tree sprouts/bounces back") that indicates something unthinkable, outside common understanding, escaping the usual way of reasoning, simply – something idiotic.

On the other hand, through the very presence of the palm tree in the middle of Warsaw's centre, it may signify that the commonly accepted way of reasoning does not fit the real world.

"Greetings from Jerusalem Avenue ." Artificial palm tree in Warsaw , conceived by Joanna Rajkowska.
Oxygenator in the Grzybowski Square in Warsaw , 2007