Ewelina Nowakowska works under the moniker The Concrete Muse and is a Pennsylvania based artist working in photography and mixed media. Her practice centers on concrete as both material and metaphor, engaging surfaces shaped by time, pressure, and exposure. Cracks, rust, and erosion become registers of endurance, vulnerability, and persistence. Born in Gdańsk, Poland, and having lived in Sweden before relocating to the United States, Nowakowska draws from layered geographies and lived experience to examine how environments bear witness. The Concrete Muse resists direct narration, allowing material to function as a stand-in for memory and the body. Through intimate, abstract photographic studies and direct engagement with concrete on canvas, overlooked surfaces emerge as quiet sites of presence and transformation.