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The article “Hope of Morning” is dedicated to Jerzy Puciata (1933-2014), an artist, social activist and cultural worker. Jerzy Puciata was a painter, involved in installation art and applied arts. He dedicated his life to art. His life, like a story, developed along with Polish history in the background. It was both interesting and very difficult. He was born in 1933 in Vilnius, which before World War II was part of Poland, located in its Eastern Borderland. In the 1950s, when the ideas of communism developed in the country, he studied in Toruń. In that time, the city was described as newly regained from Germany. After that, he was based in Bydgoszcz for 55 years, where he worked and lived with his family. During the 1980s, he was one of the top activists of the opposition movement “Solidarity,” led by Lech Wałęsa. He became chairman of the Association of Polish Artists and Designers, working for some time in the underground. He used to say that in that time he matured as a man, citizen and artist. Jerzy Puciata was known and recognized in Bydgoszcz and across Poland. Abroad, he was known as a representative of Polish contemporary art. He travelled, painted and spoke on behalf of artists and people of culture. He co-organized and participated in exhibitions and pleinair painting festivals, scientific sessions and charitable campaigns. He lived colorfully on a grand scale. He was able to transform his talent, sensitivity and internal strength to art. And suffering as well...