Anton Von Bojanowski

Anton Von Bojanowski carried a pocket watch he never wound—time stopped inside his paintings instead. In *Milton Dictating Paradise Lost*, he turns the poet’s blindness into a storm of gold leaf, letting Milton’s inner eye light up the canvas. That glowing halo around the poet’s head? It’s painted with actual gold powder, not gilded later—every brushstroke had to be right the first time. You’ll find the work tucked in the corner of a quiet gallery in Warsaw, just past the café where poets still gather.