Countless numbers of Poles were deported to Siberia during WWII, and by the end of the war tragically few of these people were ever accounted for. Nichola Mew’s work is based on a journal written by a survivor, her grandfather, Edek. She travels thousands of miles, from Siberia to the Middle East and back to Europe, to capture the landscapes he describes in his journals recording the events of the war. Mew’s work creates an uncomfortable contrast between the calm of her own modern-day experience and the tumult of Edek’s narrative written seventy years previously.