My grandmother witnessed the murder of her baby sister in World War II, Poland. This trauma was transmitted in an untold way through my mother to me.
I got aware of it when I became myself a mother.

In “Children of the golden Sun”, I do not represent war.
I speak about what war destroys… for generations.
But also about the possibility to rebuild.

A young girl.
As my grandmother was when she experienced the pain, as I was when I got in touch with my mother’s pain, a young girl also representing my daughter.

Past, present, future, intertwine and coexist in one body.
Grandmother, mother and daughter all incarnated in one body.
Individual, ancestral and collective pain, expressing through her body.

I feel that there is an intuitive landscape that transcends the borders between these bodies.Where the knowingness meets the void, and understands itself from a new perspective. A timeless space where everything is connected, where the experience of one is echoed in the others’,
a place where transgenerational pain can be addressed and eventually healed.

A feeling emerges.
A prayer.

“Children of the golden Sun” is a reflection upon an intimate life chapter, it is documenting the inner process of slowly becoming aware of what remained hidden. Observing each layer. Confronting inner violence, trying to find back what has been broken.
Which part of love has been broken. But also what lays underneath.

“Children of the golden Sun” is a meditation upon the path of the Soul,
A nonlinear path that emerges from an inner rhythm.
Something that nature has initiated and led.
Nature that is the same for everyone.
Nature that is able to hold it all.

For where the sun illuminates with truth, the sea facilitates the process of change. 

Susann Carmen Jagodzińska - @susanncarmen.jagodzinska