The Polish artist does not refrain from using eerie details in her work. Her paintings are full of traditional symbols presenting human mortality – skeletons, disemboweled bodies, naked organs, oozing wounds, festering corpses, desecrated graves and skulls. The overcoming of fear and disease in Waliszewska’s work can be linked to other masters of Polish Symbolist movement “Young Poland” (Młoda Polska), who through the movement combined their existential struggle of terminal illnesses with irony, self-loathing and exaggerated self-importance.