Oko Cadyka

A supplement of the essay Brama (The Gate) pertaining, first and foremost, to the semantic of the empty space left behind by the “Jewish town” in Lublin, and secondly, the meanings inscribed into the “text” of spatial structures (within the range of the organization of space and architecture), which in assorted ways ”fill” the emptiness. The author analysed and interpreted the town’s tissue (in particular the empty site of the former t parish church and the space where years ago the Seer of Lublin lived and worked), treating them as curious manifestations of non-existence and, at the same time, traces of the impact of radical evil. Those mutually permeating strata of meanings (topographic, symbolic, imaginary, and metaphysical) create a story emerging in an empty space – the trace of space (of silent emptiness), and fill it with the actual presence of “writing” and ensuing reading (a form of reading the world and a lesson of existence).