Leokadia Skotnik
height-field art
Biographical notes
Calls herself Lalka. Writes: "I was born in Poland and might have
lived happily and died there, if not for a strong urge to see the world.
After visiting almost every country in Europe (some them more than several
times), and paying my tribute to the ancient history inside the Great Pyramid
of Cheops, I decided one day to cross the Atlantic Ocean on a boat."
That was ten years ago. She decided to stay. Her passions had always been
travel and books. But traveling now became expensive and the books were
in English. She had seen herself as a writer but that became "more of
a bad joke than a possibility" because of the language barrier. "One
day in 1991 with no reason at all I bought my first computer." She
graduated from games to graphics. She "cannot draw the simplest thing,
but I can spend 24 hours living with my computer and my graphics programs.
What I cannot write about because of my deficiency in my English, I can
put on my compute screen: distant worlds, space, strange sceneries..."
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