Today promises to be hot, with the possibility of thunderstorms.  The rain will be welcome, as the usual pattern of sunny days interspersed with rain are a memory.  The summers are hotter and more dry.

Illinois is under a mask mandate announced by the governor today.  This measure is to prevent the depletion of hospital resources, the exhaustion of doctors and nurses in their life saving work.  Approximately a third of our population has refused vaccination.  The delta variant of the virus spreads rapidly among the “vaccine reluctant” and the very young.  So far, persuasion has failed to change minds.

Valorize personal freedom at risk of your life and serious illness.  Are humans the only mammal victim to magical thinking?  The ability to sever cause from effect?  No animal on the savanna would make that mistake.

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I read these words written by Leah Meinnis in the current issue of Adbusters magazine.  I have thought about these words for days.

Csilla Klenyánszki’s photographs
depict an impossible moment
— one of complete silence and total stillness
— a moment where balancing
becomes inaction, if only for a second.
When looking at these images,
you might find yourself
holding your breath.

These pictures
are not Photoshopped or rigged,
and the meditative power used
to create the structures
can suffuse through the paper
into your mind
if you let yourself stop,
focus and look closely.
The disparate parts of these compositions
reflect the delicate complexity of life:
fragile and temporary,
kept together
by invisible principles
like gravity.

— Leah Meinnis

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Csilla Klenyánszki was born and raised in Hungary, now lives and works in the Netherlands.

Artist Profile:

A search for balance with a problem solving attitude characterizes my work. Within my current practice I carefully examine and deconstruct personal – but universally known – challenges such as parenthood, gender, and the malleability of self identity through the passage of time. Works, such as “Pillars of home”, “to make time”, “House/hold” or the “Mothers in Arts Residency” aim to give solutions that range from the practical to the absurd.

Although my approach is analytic, the nature of the work is highly playful and experimental. To give a new perspective I often play with the borders of nonsense with a constant attraction to physical and mental tension.

http://www.klenyanszki.com/