Earlier this year I was contacted by Holm House Hotel in Penarth asking if they could purchase a photograph file to print a massive image to cover a wall in the dining room of the hotel. The end result is something slightly larger than 3 metres x 2 metres and this is what it looks like.
Tekerd have just sent me a video link to an article filmed at the exhibition where Striped Water appears on several occasions.
https://youtu.be/HN5_iDO6Qi0. Tekerd have advised me that they are building version 2 of my Striped Water image in Lego. This version is being built for the Night Of Museums 2017 exhibition. Good luck to them with the exhibition and thanks for the updates.
The exhibition at the Lego factory has now finished and Striped Water has been moved on.
Zsolt has advised me that the work is now being displayed along with the other original and new works by the group in an exhibition at the Central Hotel in Nyíregyháza in Hungary. The exhibition opened on 12 March and is set for an extended run. Many thanks to Zsolt Hudak and his team at Tekerd for all of their hard work and for keeping me updated. The exhibition of the images at the Lego factory in Nyiregyhaza in Hungary was formally opened on Tuesday 17th November 2015 by the HR Director of the factory. Striped Water is displayed in the main reception area of the factory which has 2,300 employees and receives around 7,500 external visitors per year together with employees from other factories visiting.
Since my last blog about this project I am now advised that the Lego pictures have now been moved to the Lego factory in Nyiregyhaza in Hungary. They are to be exhibited there for the rest of the year. Zsolt has provided me with pdf files of the brochures that are to accompany the exhibition.
The amazing story of my Striped Water image continues.
Zsolt has advised me this afternoon that all of the Lego creations by his students are now to be exhibited at the Lego factory in Nyiregyhaza in Hungary who have been closely involved with this project. Striped Water along with the image of Victor Vaserely who was one of the leaders of the op-art movement in the 1930's will be displayed in the main hall whilst other images in the project will be displayed in the canteen and the employee shop which will give exposure of the images to all visitors to the factory. Another result for Zsolt and his team. Yesterday I sold a greeting card of my 'Star Crossed Lovers' image at Fine Art America to a buyer in Fairborn, Ohio and was thrilled to have made a sale. As usual, I posted a thank you message to the buyer on Facebook. When I logged in to Facebook this morning, I was amazed to find a private mail with the following message:-
'I am the "buyer from Fairborn, Oh," lol. I wanted to tell you how your photo of the "star-crossed lovers" means so much to me. I am pushing 50, but almost exactly a year ago, my first high school boyfriend found me on Facebook. For over 32 years, we had each kept every photo, letter, momento. My health is failing and we will never be. I saw your photo a while ago when I googled "star-crossed lovers" and couldn't get it out of my mind. It is the expressions, in stone no less, but also how you so beautifully captured them in your photo. So I sought it out again to give him this card on our "anniversary" of being reacquainted. I just wanted to thank you for the breathtaking photo and thought that you might like to know how much your work meant to a total stranger.' I am feeling such a warm glow that one of my images has moved someone enough to purchase it and then search me out in the social media and send me a message telling me how much the image meant to them. Such feedback is always appreciated and reminds me that my work can mean so much to other people. The exhibition in Hungary has opened today and the Lego re-creation of my Striped Water image is now on display. Zsolt has kindly sent me this image of the exhibition hall showing the image along with the other images created by the students. Hopefully we will have more photographs tomorrow.
With just one week to go until the exhibition, I have received a photograph from Zsolt and am pleased to introduce the whole build team to you. The members are:-
Back row l to r - Szilveszter Gyori, David Toth, Dominik Nagy Front row l to r - Robert Mester, Greta Gegeny (the only girl), Akos Erdei, Miklos Herczku, Mark Orgovan Well done to you all on a fantastic result. I wish you every success with the exhibition. The frames for the images for the exhibition have arrived today and I was really surprised to see how big the image actually is. Zsolt tells me that it stands around 1.7 metres high. With just 4 weeks until the exhibition an article about the image and the project has been published in our local weekly newspaper, the Rhymney Valley Express. With just 6 weeks to go until the exhibition I have today spoken to Sophie Gidley, a reporter with the Trinity Mirror newspaper group and she is going to run an article about the project in our local newspaper, the Rhymney Valley Express.
With a little over 9 weeks to the exhibition Zsolt has advised me that the photographer from the Hungarian national press has been to visit the school and following the visit and publication of the article some of the photos have been online in Argentina, Finland, Mexico and Spain.
Additionally, if LEGO approve, the image will be exhibited at another exhibition in the city also. Photographs courtesy of Attila Balasz of the Hungarian National Press. Further communication received from Zsolt in respect of the project today and I am so excited to be able to tell you that the LEGO version of my Striped Water image has been featured in the official LEGO blog which can be found here.
I have today received an image from Zsolt of the team involved with building the Lego version of my Striped Water image. Only 7 of the students are pictured although 8 took part in the build but it has been extremely difficult to get them all together at the same time.
Well done to you all and I hope that the exhibition is a great success. Zsolt has just mailed me to say that the photographer of the National News Agency loved Striped Water and is going to the school to take some photos so it looks like the project is going to make the national press in Hungary.
Exciting times. The project has been completed and the Lego image is now ready for the exhibition in January. I think that the Lego mock up looks really good and applaud the skill of all of those involved. The image is made up of more than 7,000 Lego bricks and took some 36 hours spread over 2 weeks to build. More news and photographs to follow soon.
ChromaLuxe HD metal photo panels have arrived. The quality of these metal prints has got to be seen to to be believed.
Why not check out my galleries and contact me for prices on your favourite art created on this amazing product? They are also extremely durable. Check out this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=74hPE9Nvt54 I am really excited to announce that I was recently approached by Zsolt Hudack, a teacher in an educational establishment in Hungary requesting that I would allow him to use my work Striped Water (also known as Zebra Water) to be recreated by a group of underprivileged students. This is what Zsolt had to say:-
" I work in a secondary vocational school where almost half of the students are socio-economically underprivileged and/or gypsy minority students. I run the workshop in order to keep the students off the streets. Since we are a partner institution of the LEGO factory based in our city, we have already had a few projects together. The biggest one so far was a 24-hour LEGO day, building a 25.000-brick LEGO map of our county. The design was by the American David Tracy (davidtrumantracy.com) and there were about 250 students , 30 teachers, and over a hundred local guests (artists, sportspeople, students) involved. After this project, some of the students wanted to continue working with bricks, and so we did. They created some pictures and statues, and currently we have three projects going on simultaneously. From the initial four students, the number of members have gone up to eight. All of the students are underprivileged, and/or minority students. Actually, before the end of the previous school year, there were five criminal cases going on against them. And the aim of the workshop is to help them find their place in the world, and to have them experience success. To my great surprise the four students I started work with improved their academic results at the end of the school year as compared to the previous one. This helped us strengthen our support at LEGO. From the beginning of this school year in September, we are aiming to have a certain goal for each semester. This is how my students came up with the idea of having an exhibition of 'black and white' pictures. We are planning to have an exhibition of these black and white pictures in January of 2015. Since 2015 is the Year of Light by UNESCO, we wish to have this exhibition as part of our bigger project organized in our school. We hope to have the local media taking part in the event, however, with the approval of LEGO, we wish to involve the national media as well." I am delighted to say that I have given my permission and that work is already underway. You can check out progress at Zsolt's Twitter feed @zshudak.The group also have a Facebook page called Tekerd. The exhibition is due to be held on 29 January 2015. The venue is at Wesselenyi Miklos Vocational and Training School, 10-12 Dugonics Street, Nyiregyhaza 4400, Hungary. I have been asked to produce a tutorial about how I created my Infinity Clock image and the 3D images that accompany/overlay it. So here goes. I have been asked to produce a tutorial about how I created my Infinity Clock image and the 3D images that accompany/overlay it. So here goes. The Infinity Clock is created using Photoshop CS5 by use of a Droste plug in. I say CS5 as I have yet to track down this plug in for Creative Cloud, the newest and most up to date Adobe Photoshop software. The process is best explained by Gavin Hoey in his excellent video here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8D5e6bSW0g To create the 3D bottle with the Infinity Clock I used Adobe Creative Cloud and step by step instructions are as follows. Open the file for the Infinity Clock Select 3D > New Mesh From Layer > Mesh Preset > Wine Bottle > Enter This will give you the 3D effect bottle which you can rotate to the angle and view that you require. Save this as a .psd file which you can then overlay on the Infinity Clock. Save the whole image as a .jpeg and away you go. The Infinity Clock is created using Photoshop CS5 by use of a Droste plug in. I say CS5 as I have yet to track down this plug in for Creative Cloud, the newest and most up to date Adobe Photoshop software. The process is best explained by Gavin Hoey in his excellent video here:- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8D5e6bSW0g To create the 3D bottle with the Infinity Clock I used Adobe Creative Cloud and step by step instructions are as follows. Open the file for the Infinity Clock Select 3D > New Mesh From Layer > Mesh Preset > Wine Bottle > Enter This will give you the 3D effect bottle which you can rotate to the angle and view that you require. Save this as a .psd file which you can then overlay on the Infinity Clock. Save the whole image as a .jpeg and away you go. |
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