Never dissipating smoke from the chimneys at Auschwitz.

Symbols of the chimney and smoke often repeat in different shapes in the works of Bak: they become the main motif of a painting or appear somewhere in the background of a large canvas. These chimneys do not cease to produce smoke, the smoke rises between the clouds and becomes stone blocks. The chimneys of Auschwitz operated continuously for more than three years.

Painting No. 9: THE BURDEN OF THE PAST, 1967 (crayons on paper).

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