slovensko
finally, after almost 25 years of having relatives down under, my parents-in-law visited australia last october. next to the concerns of transoceanic flight and a fear of getting lost in the vast dubai airport came the need to take a present for each member of the family. and the gift was not to be something you could buy just about everywhere. so they thought of a T-shirt with a picture message from the old country, specifically form bled that our relatives once chose to leave, though brokenhearted. and this project my in-laws confided with me. i guess, this is one of the things you can always get me into. and besides, i could never deny them whatever help i am able to provide.
i did not want the T-shirt to be just a souvenir. it needed to convey something on top of the reminder of locality they still cherish, so i added a simple symbol to emphasize their precious memory of the paradise lost (kind of: bled with it's surrounding is called by france prešeren, the most famous slovene poet, and a bled devotee “the image of paradise“) it took another step between natural reflection of the island - the most prominent feature on postcards depicting bled as well as a part of the town's amblem - and the one with the heart to make the message clear.
this time, as i usually draw freehand line in openoffice and convert it to bitmap, polygon and contour to obtain the right quality, i wanted to have clean cut line and the very basic shapes repeated to design the schematic form of the island. the highest point of the church steeple (and the roof as well) reflect in the water as the base point of the heart. to the recipients of the picture message it is meant to mean (as the inscription on the back of the T-shirt states): bled is in my heart, to everyone else who knows the lake, the island, and it's heavenly surrounding it says: you cannot visit bled and not fall in love with it.
you must judge for yourself, of course, but to help you :) i can tell you an anecdote. when i worked for the adventist world radio, my boss brought his boss, a polish man who has lived in england, had studied in the usa and has travelled around the world. when edita informed him that he has now visited the nicest corner of the globe, he smiled at her perceived local patriotism, and said he knew that this title belongs to switzerland. only then we went sightseeing. as we walked around the lake and watched the many faces of the island, ray said he would need to give his stated position another thought.
the illustration is the winter variety. for the coloured one come back later. it will be used in the planned slovene post.
finally, after almost 25 years of having relatives down under, my parents-in-law visited australia last october. next to the concerns of transoceanic flight and a fear of getting lost in the vast dubai airport came the need to take a present for each member of the family. and the gift was not to be something you could buy just about everywhere. so they thought of a T-shirt with a picture message from the old country, specifically form bled that our relatives once chose to leave, though brokenhearted. and this project my in-laws confided with me. i guess, this is one of the things you can always get me into. and besides, i could never deny them whatever help i am able to provide.
i did not want the T-shirt to be just a souvenir. it needed to convey something on top of the reminder of locality they still cherish, so i added a simple symbol to emphasize their precious memory of the paradise lost (kind of: bled with it's surrounding is called by france prešeren, the most famous slovene poet, and a bled devotee “the image of paradise“) it took another step between natural reflection of the island - the most prominent feature on postcards depicting bled as well as a part of the town's amblem - and the one with the heart to make the message clear.
this time, as i usually draw freehand line in openoffice and convert it to bitmap, polygon and contour to obtain the right quality, i wanted to have clean cut line and the very basic shapes repeated to design the schematic form of the island. the highest point of the church steeple (and the roof as well) reflect in the water as the base point of the heart. to the recipients of the picture message it is meant to mean (as the inscription on the back of the T-shirt states): bled is in my heart, to everyone else who knows the lake, the island, and it's heavenly surrounding it says: you cannot visit bled and not fall in love with it.
you must judge for yourself, of course, but to help you :) i can tell you an anecdote. when i worked for the adventist world radio, my boss brought his boss, a polish man who has lived in england, had studied in the usa and has travelled around the world. when edita informed him that he has now visited the nicest corner of the globe, he smiled at her perceived local patriotism, and said he knew that this title belongs to switzerland. only then we went sightseeing. as we walked around the lake and watched the many faces of the island, ray said he would need to give his stated position another thought.
the illustration is the winter variety. for the coloured one come back later. it will be used in the planned slovene post.
