In 2013, when the Polish government proposed to control flooding of the Bialka River in southern Poland by digging steeper banks and building concrete containment walls, Cecylia Malik decided that protesting and writing letters and petitions was boring.
Authorities scrapped plans to reconstruct the river.
Image Credit:
- Braiding the River: Mieszko Stanislawski
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