For My Mom

whose favourite season was "golden" autumn ...

Photo Images

Strolling the streets of Budapest I came across X6 Gallery. It is located on the crossroad of October 6 and Arany Janos streets, with it's entrance cleverly positioned right at the corner. The large scaled photo images clearly visible through the windows were impossible to miss. And, so I went it...

Images on the walls took my breath away. There were portraits, still lifes, landscapes, cityscapes and collages. But it is the quality of the prints that left me in awe. The brigtness of colour, the sharpness of images - there were all crisp as you will. I chatted a bit with the staff and read a bit afterwards to discover that  Lambda C-Type printing were used to achieve this effect. This technique "uses three lasers merged into a single beam to expose images on to photosensitive materials  up to 1200mm (50 inches) in width, producing the whole image in a single pass" Lambda C-type photographic prints are  produced chiefly on Fuji Crystal Achive paper.
Frankly, I don't fully understand the technicalities, but the result are worth seeing, and, if one is wealthy enough, buying.

"Vanitas 2 and 6" by Annett Van Der Voort

"Meeting Point 5" by Julia Christe

x 6 Gallery has a great website as well: www.x6gallery.com 

Design Week in Budapest

The event is in its third year and this year has even more participants. The exhibitions include the work of young and unknown artist as well as internationally acclaimed designers. The venues are varied from “proper” exhibition halls to small shops, but all entrances are free You can find more information (in Hungarian and English) by following the link at Design Week.

The exhibition “Slow Design” certainly stands out from many offering by sheer variety and creativity of exhibited art works. It concentrates on the usage of recycling material and the results are truly amazing and amusing.

 Who knew that lamps can be done from dandelions...

 Dandelights by Lonneke Gordijn

 Plastic bottles can be turned into vases... 

 Car tiles - into sandals... 

 Sandals by Jussi Impio and Mifuko Oy 

 And clothes accessories can canceal airbags ...

 Bicycle Collar by Anna Haupt and Terese Alstin 

 “Slow design” is shown at Erzsébet Square 13 in the building of the former central bus station, right near Deak Square Metro station and is opened from 12:00-20:00 until October 28.

Just Hang In There

Found in Prague

"Change isn't always improvement, as the pigeon said when it got out of the net and into the pie" Any changes bring on certain imbalance. Start of a new half time job with a steep learning curve, attempts to combine it with art lectures and tours conducting, and refusal to give up a thought of yoga teaching certification destory previously achieved equilibrium. It will work itself out - for now... see above.

The quote belongs to Mr. C.H. Spurdgeon

Decisions....

What to eat? When to get  up? Where to go? A myriad of decisions is paving out our days. One that keeps following me around is - what path should be chosen? The one that brings some material rewards or the one that brings joy. I am fortunate to have this choice but why is it so hard to combine those two?

A Painting on the Wall

Short of Perfection

Autumn Light

When People Leave

When people leave

A house stands still

With only wind breathing by

We are in Budapest...