The young woman, small and long braided hair, embraces a large crow. Boat beak, a camera by hand. In a forest in winter, we still see it, mantle stuffed and chapka, a look at the photographer, she walks with deer. We do not know who follows the other. Do wild animals obey their mistress? Or is it the woman who accompanies the pack and go for a walk in the woods? A few years later, 70 fashionable hair was cut, marked face, closed eyes, in contact with the fur of this young lynx, head to head, skin to skin. We see her breathing the smell and warmth of the animal, in an embrace of great tenderness.
This young woman is Simona Kossak (1943-2007) Biologist and zoologist, professor invested in behavioral ecology and the preservation of natural ecosystems. She was born in Krakow, in a large family of artists, her grandfather, her father, her aunts, her sister are painters, writers or poets. The Kossak are abused by the new communist regime which then settles down, without losing their old manor “Kossakowka”, stronghold of the noble family. Inside the home is a certain decadence and are played out other dissensions, humiliations and rejections on the part of his mother. Gabbis of the family, Simona finds refuge in the garden of the property. After studying biology in Krakow, against the tide of her line, she leaves the city for the forest. Beginning of his true