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Flower, call your name to the National Arboretum (509 Gwangneung Arboretum-ro, Soheul-eup, Pocheon-si, Gyeonggi-do)
There are several arboretums in Korea that use the name ‘national’, but the only one operated by state officials is the National Arboretum. Many people may be more familiar with the name Gwangneung Arboretum, which was called when it opened in 1987. (The name was changed to National Arboretum in 1999.) Gwangneung Forest, where the National Arboretum is located, is also a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve where rare and endemic creatures live. Clear flowers are blooming here these days. It’s a good time to visit.
A 10-day festival breeze blows in Daegu, where spring is in full swing (Bisan-dong, Seo-gu, Daegu)
When you think of ‘street parade’, famous events abroad may come to mind first rather than Korea, but there are colorful street parade festivals in Korea as well. This is the ‘Powerful Daegu Festival’. In the event held on the 11th and 12th of this month, a total of 100 parade teams, including 17 overseas participating teams from 9 countries, will walk through the streets of the National Debt Bosang-ro area in the city. We have summarized the schedule for the Fantasia Daegu Festa (8th to 17th), which will be held for a total of 10 days including the parade.
Everything about traveling to Hongdo, the pearl of the Dadohae (Hongdo-ri, Heuksan-myeon, Shinan-gun, Jeollanam-do)
Hongdo is a travel destination where you can enjoy both a cruise on Hongdo Island, Korea’s best maritime cruise course, and a trip on the Gitdaebong Eco Trail that passes through a natural reserve. No matter which course you choose, you can enjoy the romantic sea. Let’s immerse ourselves in the spectacular scenery of Hongdo Island, which has been called the pearl of the Dadohae Sea and the Haegeumgang River of the Southwest Sea.
1. Flower, I am going to the National Arboretum to call your name.
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The leaves of trees sparkling in the sunlight create various variations of green. As your eyes feel refreshed, even your lungs feel refreshed. While yellow plum blossoms and pink azaleas were popular not long ago, white flowers are trending in May. Even if you look at their subtle appearance, you will miss them all: the darting darter, the innocent chick-flowered tree, and the white poppy… . The Great Striped Butterfly lands on pure white wildflowers or water parsley and loses track of time.
If you are planning a family outing this weekend, I would like to recommend the Pocheon National Arboretum in Gyeonggi Province. The National Arboretum is a place where the fresh greenery of May is beautiful, a place where Korea’s representative and rare wild orchid, the Gwangneungyo-gang flower, is in full bloom, a place where trees tell us about the past days, and a place where we can dream of a sustainable future.
Buy a ticket at the ticket booth and cross the Sumogwon Bridge (bridge) that crosses Bongseonsacheon (river). A cassia tree with green heart-shaped leaves welcomes you. This is the beginning of the arboretum trip. As I look around, I see visitors holding cameras with large lenses moving in one direction. Head towards the direction where the Gwangreungyangang orchid orchids are blooming.
2. A 10-day festival breeze blows through Daegu, where spring is in full swing~
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The ‘Fantasia Daegu Festa’, where you can enjoy nine festivals representing Daegu in relay over 10 days, will be held throughout the city from the 8th to the 17th. Representative regional spring festivals, including the Daegu Yangnyeongsi Oriental Medicine Culture Festival, Daegu Lifestyle Culture Festival, Dongseong-ro Festival, and Powerful Daegu Festival, will be held around Dongseong-ro, the largest shopping district, and are expected to bring a breeze of spring to the recently stagnant downtown commercial district.
The Daegu Yangnyeongsi Oriental Medicine Culture Festival, which kicks off the festival, will be held in the Yangnyeongsi area from the 8th to the 12th. Hosted by Daegu City and Jung-gu and organized by the Yangnyeongsi Preservation Committee, this year’s event is held under the theme of ‘Hipjeon Alley 1658’. In commemoration of the 366th anniversary of its opening, we have prepared a variety of things to enjoy so that Yangnyeongsi can be reborn as a ‘hip’ space that can be enjoyed by people of all ages. There will be a modern version of Madangnori, a combination of traditional Korean music and electronic dance music, and an experiential program to avoid hordes of zombies and find the Golden Gongjindan.
The powerful Daegu Festival, which has become Korea’s highest-level street parade festival, will be held in the Gukchaebosang-ro area for two days, the 11th and 12th, starting with the eve of the 10th. The parade, which takes place on a car-free street from Jungang Intersection to Gongpyeong Intersection, is characterized by the ability to enjoy a variety of scenes, from spectacular performances by professional parade teams to unique performances by ordinary citizen teams. In particular, this year, more than 100 teams are expected to participate to delight visitors’ five senses.
3. Everything about traveling to Hongdo, the pearl of the Dadohae
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Hongdo’s natural ecology is so well preserved that it represents the islands in the southwest sea of Korea, so there were many areas where people’s access was strictly restricted for a long time. It was not possible to climb Gitdaebong (365m), the highest peak on the island, and the mountain road connecting Hongdo District 1 and District 2 was cut off for a while. However, now anyone can freely travel from Hongdo 1-gu Village to the top of Gitdaebong Peak to Hongdo 2-gu Village and Hongdo Lighthouse. Just by walking this trail, named ‘Gitdaebong Eco-Trail’, you can feel with all five senses how beautiful and well-preserved the nature of Hongdo is.
After passing the third observatory, the ‘Lover’s Path’ begins. On the side of the road in this section, there is a Yeonriji where two old pine chestnut trees with different roots are connected into one in the middle. There is a popular saying that if lovers walk this road together, they will become married, and if they walk together as a couple, their lives will get better.
On the Gitdaebong hiking trail, two round and elongated stones stand out. It is not just a stone, but a stone Maitreya. This Maitreya Buddha, called ‘Cheongeo Maitreya’ (靑魚彌勒, or ‘Jukhang Maitreya’), does not look like a regular Maitreya Buddha. Nevertheless, the residents call them Nam-mi-reuk and Yeo-mi-reuk, respectively.
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Linda Evangelista in white at the Met Gala: the return of the top model after the treatment that disfigured her
They have been difficult years for Linda Evangelista: health problems (two tumors and a cosmetic treatment that disfigured her) have severely affected the former supermodel, who disappeared from the media radar for a long time. But today the icon of Nineties fashion is ready to get back into the game, and to prove it returns to tread the most glamorous red carpet in the world, that of the 2024 Met Gala: Linda Evangelista pleasantly surprised the public and guests by participating in the event which took place on the night between 6 and 7 May, after nine years of absence.
He did it wearing an outfit that doesn’t seem to have taken much account of the dress code, that is The Garden of Timewhich most guests played with variations on the floral theme. Linda Evangelista instead chose a outfit total white, characterized by a light drape in silk gazar, accompanied by a pair of long and sheer gloves: the garment was designed especially for her by Catherine Holstein, founder of Khaite, a brand that the top model frequently wears. The outfit was embellished with green tourmaline and diamond drop earrings made by designer Ana Khouri, with whom she posed on the red carpet.
The last time the Canadian model, now fifty-nine years old, attended the annual gala of the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York was 2015, and on that occasion the opening of the exhibition was celebrated China: Through the Looking Glass. The dress chosen to pay homage to the theme of the evening was a red garment, a reference to Chinese culture, with a maxi black bow by Moschino.
“There was a time when I thought I would never work again, but now I am full of hope”, he told last year to d. After years of absolute silence and total withdrawal from the scene, Linda Evangelista, who with her colleagues Naomi Campbell, Cindy Crawford, Claudia Schiffer, Christy Turlington made the history of fashion by giving life to nineties supermodel phenomenonis ready to get back into the game.
Always beloved (her return to the catwalks of New York fashion week for Fendi in 2022 was welcomed with a general ovation), she is considered one of the most important models of all time, and this is demonstrated by the almost two hundred images collected in the volume released last year. titled autumn Linda Evangelista Photographed by Steven Meisel. Walking the red carpet at the Met again testifies to the desire to finally return to the spotlight: “I discovered how kind and generous my world can be. In the name of diversity, they don’t expect me to be perfect, young or in the same physical shape I once was. They take me as I am.”
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Ray Bartkus, the artist who created the garden installation for the Song Festival: “I like my duality” | Culture
The creator who lives in America, but returns to Lithuania more and more often, presented a similar installation for the first time six years ago, in Washington. At that time, almost half a million visitors saw the work.
– You mentioned earlier that when you arrived in New York, you had no contact with Lithuania for a good fifteen years. And now you are a frequent guest here. Are you watching what is happening in the field of Lithuanian culture, do you feel a part of it?
– After coming to Lithuania, I work a lot on various projects, I barely have time to move around and, unfortunately, I don’t have time to go to concerts, exhibitions or performances. However, I can say one thing – there is a lot of cultural life going on in Lithuania, which I would like to experience – I can see it from advertisements, posters, social media.
I think you are very lucky to have so many different options. And I, having paid tribute to the Lithuanian cultural field, return home for at least a few days and do nothing, I rest!
– You are often referred to as an American Lithuanian, sometimes – a New Yorker, a Vilnius native, maybe even a Marijampole native. Is the question of identity, broadly speaking, important to you?
– A person does not choose where he is born. As a teenager, in Soviet Lithuania, I used to wonder why I wasn’t born in America. Now, living in America, I think that my Lithuanian identity enriches me, allows me to look at many phenomena more broadly than I could have if I was born in America.
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My son Kristijonas, who grew up in America, has already fully integrated into the life of this country, but it is not really a threat to me. I like my duality, I think that living abroad, but being Lithuanian, I am a richer person with multiple experiences and a broader worldview.
The Lithuania where I grew up is different from the Lithuania where today’s youth are growing up. The Lithuanian identity was one in the interwar period, and another in the Soviet era or the 90s. What kind of Lithuanian identity should be protected then? Identity is an ever-changing concept.
In Lithuania, where I grew up, many things were unacceptable to me, which is exactly why I left. For Lithuanians living abroad, their identity changes again – we are a small nation, so when we leave, we cannot gather such communities as emigrants from large countries, who often do not even learn English.
We, the representatives of a small nation, are forced to build connections and relations with a new country, we integrate and this changes our Lithuanian identity, I think thus enriching it.
Photo by Gabrielias Jauniškis/Ray Bartkus installation “Gardens”
– In Vilnius, you created the installation “Sodai” for the centenary Song Festival. You presented the previous version in America as well. When and why did gardens appear in your work?
– I created the first version of “Gardens” when the Lithuanian Embassy in Washington approached me. Since Lithuania celebrated the centenary of the restoration of a modern state, we wanted to make a piece that could be transported around various American cities and specifically to present Lithuania to Americans. Therefore, it was necessary to somehow interest the audience of American cities who had seen everything.
Gardens can be understood in many nations because their forms are recognizable and elementary. Lines, triangles, pyramids are repeated throughout human history, from the time of the Egyptian pharaohs to the present day.
Our goal was to present Lithuania to as wide a circle of viewers as possible, so we had to create a large, impressive installation. I thought that light always attracts a person, so when I created gardens, I thought of making them luminous.
Our goal was to present Lithuania to as wide a circle of viewers as possible, so we had to create a large, impressive installation.
By the way, famous American artists who used neon lights in their installations in the 60s and 70s also influenced this. I believed that such images of geometric, illuminating forms would be closer and more understandable to Americans, precisely because of the contribution of these artists to American culture.
The Gardens were first built in Washington’s historic and very beautiful Union Railroad Station, located right next to the Capitol. During those few days, the “Gardens” installation was seen by almost 400,000 people. people.
The embassy wanted to transport this piece around different cities, so it had to be large, but at the same time easy to pick up to fit in a car. The Gardens have been exhibited in New York, Washington, Chicago and Philadelphia. Various reviews in print publications and television programs have promoted them among the most visited attractions in those cities. It was a very memorable presentation of Lithuania to the USA.
Photo by Gabrielias Jauniškis/Ray Bartkus installation “Gardens”
– What reactions did “Gardens” have in America at that time?
– Perhaps the funniest event happened in Washington. A group of people walked by and started talking in a language I was somewhat familiar with. It turned out to be a Latvian children’s choir from Riga that came to Washington to perform. Only after arriving in an unfamiliar city, after a long journey, they disembarked at the station and were greeted by familiar ornaments. After putting down their bags, the whole choir stopped in front of “Sodus” and sang Latvian folk songs for half an hour. It was an exciting, very beautiful moment.
I also met more viewers from Eastern Europe who recognized their hometowns in the “Gardens”.
I also met more viewers from Eastern Europe who recognized their hometowns in the “Gardens”. Americans or immigrants from other countries were intrigued by “Gardens” as an object of contemporary art. In part, this was our goal: to present Lithuania as a country with deep traditions that would be relevant in the modern world. I am glad that I can present this installation in Lithuania.
– How does “Sodai” presented in Vilnius differ from the previous installation?
The “Gardens” presented in America could only be viewed from the outside. While setting up the installation, connecting the wires, I had to crouch under it, so I had the opportunity to view the “Gardens” from the inside, when around me, at a 360-degree angle, intersecting diagonals of various colors crossed, creating ever-changing compositions.
I wanted the audience to have a chance to see this beauty too. I thought that it would be possible to pass by the next “Gardens” installation and admire it with your head closed. So, the new installation is not only “Gardens”, but also an arch.
– Does the Song Festival evoke any feelings or memories for you? Maybe you participated in it as a child?
– I remember very well that when I was about six years old, my parents used to take me to the Song Festival in Kalnai Park. These are childhood memories: songs playing, lots of people. I don’t know if it’s a consequence of Soviet education, but I was taught that I couldn’t sing, so I wasn’t a member of choirs, and I didn’t dance either, even though my mother wanted me to.
I never imagined that I would ever be a participant in the Song Festival, but I became one thanks to this installation.
– When creating, do you think a lot about the audience, their reactions, how they will receive the work?
– Previously, I thought more about the audience and worked on predicting one or another of their reactions. But I lost hope long ago to understand how the audience will accept the work, which work they will buy and which they won’t, so now I only create based on my own selfish motives.
However, I believe that art is not one or another physical object, but a connection between the artist and the viewer. The work is the vessel that both the artist and the viewer fill with their experiences, aspirations, feelings, reflections, and sometimes an artistic experience is born in that medium. Looking at a work is a very important artistic act.
Photo by Gabrielias Jauniškis/Ray Bartkus installation “Gardens”
– Installations in your work appeared not so long ago. Is it – a difficult technique to implement?
– You cannot know exactly what the installation will be until you see the result in reality, you cannot predict how all parts of the work will work. I believe that every technique complements me, has taught me something. Working with light installations, I start to treat light differently in painting, and the subtleties of painting influence the works I create with digital technologies and so on.
There are artists who are strictly limited to both subject matter and means of expression, and this can lead to great results, but I am attracted to new experiences, new worlds, I need to raise and solve new problems. If the lessons are understood and learned, I must move on to the others. I like creativity, I’m not attracted to production.
– With your creativity and artistic projects, you strongly complement our cultural life. And what attracts you to present your work here? After all, you are doing it successfully in America as well.
– The project follows the project, this year I have been in Lithuania three times with different jobs and I will come at least once more in the summer. I have very good conditions to create in Lithuania. They did not appear out of nowhere.
After returning to Lithuania, I held my first exhibition in 2007 at the “Vartai” gallery. So it took almost 20 years of consistent work before I created the necessary infrastructure for successful creative action in Lithuania: sponsors, helpers and viewers.
In New York, I illustrated the world’s most famous newspapers and magazines for almost 30 years, and the structure of the media world is very different from the art market, it is impossible to jump between them – there is too much competition in every sphere.
So now I feel like I’m in a second career, maybe a third if I were to count my work as a graphic designer before I left for New York. It would certainly take more than 20 years to build such an infrastructure in America – it is an incomparably larger market.
In New York, I illustrated for the world’s most famous newspapers and magazines for almost 30 years, and the structure of how the media world works is very different from the art market, it is impossible to jump between them.
Anyway, Americans are most interested in American artists, Germans – German artists, and Lithuanians, I think, Lithuanian artists.
– What projects await you in the near future?
– Lithuanian Culture Attaché in Ukraine Tomas Ivanauskas offered to come to Ukraine. We are planning an action on the basis of the “Malonny” project in Marijampolė: two American artists, two British artists, two Lithuanian artists will come to Lviv, and together with two more Ukrainian artists and volunteers from Lviv, we will paint in the city’s public spaces. I think it’s important to show our unwavering solidarity with the brave Ukrainians who experience Russian violence every day.
– Do you believe that creativity can change the world at least a little?
– Life is creativity. Every day, my wife Ina strives to do 3 good and not necessarily grandiose things: to show the way to tourists who are lost in New York, to help a woman get off the subway station to carry a stroller with a child, to talk to an emigrant who has just arrived in the USA on the street. I believe that if each of us did this, the world would change for the better.
I think that the only meaning of life is to be a little bit better every day than yesterday.
I think that the only meaning of life is to be a little bit better every day than yesterday. Small positive vibrations change the world for good. Although sometimes it seems that all good efforts go to waste, you can not be discouraged, because the opposition between good and evil is permanent, it will never disappear.
Thirty years ago, I experienced miraculously wonderful changes: the walls fell in Europe, the countries of Eastern and Central Europe became free and democratic states, Lithuania flourished and I was very optimistic about the development of the world. The present teaches that, unfortunately, the boundless optimism was not justified, and humanity repeats the mistakes of the past and sinks into the era of problematic conflicts.
Legendary American investor Warren Buffett says that optimists always win in the stock market. I’m not so confident that he’s right!
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2024-05-08 14:25:45