The photos are the result of three week-long study trips to two cities, Polish Słubice and German Frankfurt Oder, separated by the Oder River and connected by a bridge. During my stay, I analyzed the phenomenon of emptiness, which is the result of a transition between one identity and another. Elderly people constitute the majority of the inhabitants of both cities. Young people prefer to seek education and work in nearby Berlin. Earlier, I had visited Słubice many times. It was a stopover with cheap accommodation on my way to Berlin. This time, however, I decided to come to Słubice and Frankfurt Oder for longer. As my destination, I chose Słubfurt - a non-existent place, in fact an idea that combines both these cities into one socio-artistic place coordinated by the German-Polish artist Michael Kurzwelly. In consultation with the Słubfurt Association, I planned three trips and each time I had the impression that I arrived at the wrong time. I participated in weekly meetings, learned the details of various initiatives (e.g. the creation of a large free-shop for refugees from Ukraine, manifestations of support for LGBT+ people, legal assistance for refugees from Syria, Cameroon, Guinea, for push-back migrants from Belarus, opposition to ultra-conservative ideas on both the Polish and German side). We talked about the heritage of Nowa America, which has no borders, but functions somewhere on the border of the Oder river. I came to Słubfurt as the capital of a country invented by artists creating a new state on lands that belonged to Germany before 1945 and are now part of Germany and Poland. I came to imaginary country where I was born, the capital from which people fled to other countries and cities. I wanted to take a closer look at this emptiness that has the power to attract people who do not fit into the environment, creative people, quick to take radical changes in life, sensitive, empathetic and ephemeral. People appearing and disappearing. In my superficial views I used photographic notations and at the same time I caused this type of emptiness in experimental photography. On modules made of photographic paper, the proportions of which were inspired by the span of the Słubfurt bridge and the dash from Heinrich von Kleist's poetry, I collected light from various places appearing in the stories of people I had met and arranged them into new wholes. The photos were taken, among others, in the Słubfurt parliament, located in a former gymnasium next to a closed school building, and currently a meeting place and activities for artists-activists of various nationalities; st. Marien Kirche, a former Gothic church transformed into a museum of contemporary art, with a preserved one tower and two types of stained glass: colored, depicting the birth of Satan, and colorless, devoid of narration; in the gray-colored streets of Słubice, in places symbolic of the life of the Slubfurt poet Heinrich von Kleist, and in the deserted streets of Frankfurt Oder. Słubfurt is the name of a city located on both sides of the Oder River, connecting Polish Słubice and German Frankfurt Oder. Nowa Amerika is the name of a country without real borders, functioning, like Słubfurt, as an artistic project of Michael Kurzwely, who animates creative activities with communities, fulfills the mission of art in as an instrument of liberation, introducing equality and cross-border co-operation. Artistic activities inspired by the idea of social sculpture (Joseph Beuys), social constructivism and activism leave lasting and ephemeral traces in the urban tissue and in the consciousness of the inhabitants. Objects such as the municipal coat of arms, flag, parliament, new street names and numerous artistic actions involving the inhabitants of Poland and Germany create a new kind of local identity based on artistic symbols and narratives.