{"product_id":"stay-forever-more-patryk-giziki","title":"Stay Forever More, Patryk Giziki","description":"\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\"'Stay Forever More'\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan\u003e is a semi-fictional, reflective journey into my childhood and adolescence, attempting to reconstruct and confront difficult memories. The project engages with themes of home, belonging and coming of age.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp dir=\"ltr\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eMy family left Poland due to financial instability there. We arrived in Ireland at the height of the ‘Celtic Tiger’, along with thousands of others in search of a better life. For most of my life, the idea of home has always had a bittersweet resonance. The title of the project comes from 'Green and Red of Mayo' by The Saw Doctors, a song that is infamous in my Irish hometown, Castlebar. From a young age that particular lyric has echoed in my mind as a reflection on emigration. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eSettling in was a slow process for me, I express this period of my life with images that explore in-between states. This is how I saw my hometown for a long time, a place of passing, a transitional home. I ended up never quite fitting in, but as time went on I found comfort in other people in similar situations. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eI left Castlebar six years ago, but now coming back to the hometown that I thought I had to run away from, feels completely different. The inertia of a small town that I thought would drag me down now calls as living costs of Dublin mount, forcing many to leave.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan style=\"font-size: 0.875rem;\"\u003eReturning to Mayo with fresh eyes, I now photograph as a love letter to the complexities of my hometown, my upbringing, and what it means to be Irish.\" (Words by Patryk Giziki)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Self Published","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53723250393435,"sku":null,"price":20.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0526\/2540\/8163\/files\/Untitleddesign-5_513dc859-2888-44d7-91d7-53d2580bcbde.png?v=1785942851","url":"https:\/\/shop.photomuseumireland.ie\/products\/stay-forever-more-patryk-giziki","provider":"Photo Museum Ireland","version":"1.0","type":"link"}