Remembering the Summer…in February/March
- Szendrei Judit
- 2 days ago
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Just to continue the series I started with ma picture presented last time title Remembering the Summer I wish to present two others featuring also different seasons of the year.
My picture about Autumn was also made on the basis of reminiscences but by remembering not to his year but to those when I was a schoolgirl. When I attended high school in the beginning of the school year we went to collect fruits like apple, grape and others. We worked of course hard to earn as much money for our class as possible but these activities are very good memories for me. I wanted to present that joy and happiness with the cavalcade if colours I could give by using stamps.
My friends and visitors of my website and exhibitions are well aware of the fact that there are different things able to inspire the making of a picture. There were different impressions and recollections inspiring the following picture but the very nice embroidery which was used to make the snowflakes had an important as well. By passing the Summer and the Autumn Winter which earlies used to be unimaginable without snow arrived. So how to make snowflakes on this picture? When I found among other things this piece of currently out of use embroidery, I know I had found the right material.
I think now everyone is expecting my picture presenting the fourth piece of the series, Spring. As a matter of fact, the picture is ready but it is still with our friend Tibor, who is our framer. Instead of this picture let me show you the one titled "Tavaszi szél vizet áraszt"-Tribute to Freddie Mercury. This was my first singing picture the title of which means: Wind in Spring-time brings rain…
Thia picture was made also on the basis of reminiscences. My son David used to go to a special kindergarten where they learnt music as well. Eva, their teacher presented the notes to the children by showing them swallows on the different rows of electricity wires. This piece of recollection gave me the idea to imagine notes by stamps with birds. But which song should the birds sing on the picture and finally I chose this song. When I was ready with the picture it came to the mind of my husband that this song was sung by Freddy Mercury on the Queen’s 1986 Budapest concert together with seventy thousand fans. It was not easy either to find the technical solution for the singing picture but finally we built a knob in into the frame and the system worked.
Let me write also some words about my exhibition held in Zagreb. According to the organizers it was a great success. Many people saw the pictures either as they wanted to see the pictures and came to the gallery or they participated in an event held on this beautiful place. Here are two photos made on their carnival event:
And another event, this time from Debrecen. Being very active in all parts of culture Gyongyi Porkolab plays an important role in Debrecen. It was she who presented me first to her club Only1woman in 2019 and she was the one to open my exhibition in the Kolcsey Center in the same year. I would not talk about our many other meetings but there is one I would like to present. This time Gyongyi invited us for a book presentation. This book was compiled by her using materials of radio interviews made by her before. One of the eleven stories presented belongs to me and my husband and also to my daughter Zsofi living with Down syndrome. The birth of my daughter changed my whole life and dispatched me on a road opening my hidden skills and thus my artist’s carrier started.
The book was issued by the Debrecen Hospice Foundation. If anyone buys the book would not only support the foundation but would learn of the eleven stories how to live in the shadow of a family tragedy.
DR Karoly Fekete, the bishop of the Calvinistic Church in Transnistria was also present on the event. He told us that the book evoked the memory of his late father who was a great stamp collector.
Several photos of the event:
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