Welcome to the PLAY-ground
If this page found you, it's not an accident. You are already on the map. Synchronicities ahead. Welcome to the ART of PLAY
Meet The BOOK behind The PLAY-ground
PLAY GODASS is the written map behind the world I create as PLAy the Artist. Through memoir, synchronicities, spiritual curiosity and very human detours, it explores the Ass, Badass and Godass modes shaping how we react, strive and create.
My artworks continue the same exploration in physical form, transforming overlooked objects, memories, language and happy accidents into unexpected possibilities. The book reveals how I see; the art reveals what that way of seeing can become.
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About the Author
Meet PLAY
PLAY is Patrycja Lucyna Altyńska, a Polish-born, London-based artist, author, word player, transformational coach and occasional speaker who sometimes has something rather important to say.
One day, Patrycja discovered an unexpected acronym hiding in plain sight within her own name:
Patrycja Lucyna Altyńska… and Y Yellow, the colour that had begun following her around like a particularly persistent stalker.
It felt less like inventing an artistic identity and more like discovering a message that had been waiting for her since birth. So she decided to live up to it.
Not because life had always been particularly playful. Her journey has included depression, heartbreak, financial upheaval, identity loss and the painful reality of interrupted motherhood and physical separation from her children across continents.
In other words, PLAY did not emerge because life was one enormous glitter-covered playground.
PLAY was not frivolous. PLAY was medicine.
It became her way of transforming pain into possibility, ordinary objects into extraordinary stories and apparent disasters into suspiciously interesting conclusions. Through various meditation practices, creative exploration, spiritual investigation and a relentless curiosity about what else might be possible, she began finding hidden gifts in places where life appeared to have forgotten to leave any.
From this journey emerged Play Godass and the Godass: the divine hue-man within all of us, coloured by every experience yet free to decide what those colours become next.
Today, PLAY brings together art, psychology, spirituality, metaphysics, humour, wordplay and synchronicity to explore how we can interrupt our inherited programming, question the realities we have accepted and play a more conscious part in whatever happens next.
Her miss-I-on is to inspire a world where play becomes conscious transformation, humour becomes wisdom and even a broken path might turn out to be a hidden map wearing a very convincing disguise.