1975-1979
gelatin silver print, 18 × 24 cm,
artist’s stamp on the reverse
vintage print

The artist started working on her World of Feelings and Imagination series in the 1960s. By means of a visual metaphor, the emotional photomontages tell a story about life across the spectrum of its aspects. As Rydet herself said, "my World of Emotions and Imagination depicts humans in a precarious state from their very birth, their obsessions, feelings, loneliness, desires and anxiety, for which there is no salvation but through love. It is a story about the tragedy of passing, fear of annihilation, and destruction."
The series has been widely exhibited and reproduced, including: Zofia Rydet. Photographs, National Museum in Wrocław (2000); Zofia Rydet. The Arc of Realism, Photoireland Festival, Centre for Creative Practices, Dublin, Ireland (2011); Necessary Complement, Silesian Museum, Katowice (2012); Zofia Rydet. Inventorying the Image of Man, Photomonth, Sofia, Bulgaria (2012).