Without Lifting A Finger

[Photo by Daniel Araya] Was looking for my own version of this sculpture (not sure of title). I know we were back (post-1994) and I shot this "bandaged head" several times. This photo has an eerie feel to it, with night and all. Like it. Mine, who knows where it is (can't place the album). Last time I was in Krakow I half-hoped to see Szymborska strolling around the town. Now it can only be her ghost.

From, I believe,  Summer of 1994. With something of a "finding Waldo" aspect about them.           

krakow's main plaza, "rynek glówny" , a photo by @stills on Flickr. I have plenty of photos of the Rynek "buried in the closet," but this photo is pretty good.

I've had this little piece hanging on my wall for almost 20 years. Never thought much about it (picked it up relatively cheap in a stall on the Rynek in Krakow -- didn't pay much, but then the exchange rate was much better then). I've always thought: acrobat, circus, quirky, perhaps "precarious." Just today (after all these years enjoying just looking at it, seeing what I wanted to see) I asked the Polka in the house if she could make out the Polish title. She says it's something like "Reinforced Authority." Not quite the way I'd been reading (seeing) it all these years, but I can see that. According to Google podbudowany autorytet = "encouraged by authority." Another conversation with the Polka (and rethinking the picture) produced the possibility that the title is something of a "dig" against communism. Anyway, I don't know who the artist is (was). Seems to have something like AG 84' scribbled in the lefthand cor...