Embrace your roots

  • Dobrusia Kaminska

This is campaign is a follow up from my book on Polish traditions. ‘Embrace your roots’ is a campaign directed to polish people living outside of Poland. It is a direct reminder of where they are from; embracing your roots is fun and exciting. The three ways of sending my message are through posters and varied stickers. The invitation is to join the community ‘internations.org’. Here we can communicate with different people from around the world, talk internationally and even arrange gatherings with others. During my stay in Australia, I met a lot of people with a Polish background, who knew nothing about the culture or our traditions, and so my project is about getting people curious about it and submerging them into learning. Colour is a very important factor in the design, deriving from the polish flag; consisting of two halves, the red represents the many struggles for freedom and the white is hope. This work highlights political and social issues in life, through art. This work is bold, simple, and clean with a direct message, why it is vital not to forget one's heritage. Embrace your roots!

Red and white make up the colours from the polish flag. Consisting of two halves, the red represents the many struggles for freedom and the white is hope. We as a country have been through a lot, with Poland not existing as Poland for 120 years. We were invaded by Germany, Austria and Russia. We were split. We were persecuted for even speaking our own language let alone keeping our culture.However throughout all of this, we continued to exercise our rights to be Polish in secret. Continuing our traditions and keeping a sense of our identity. We are very proud people.