A mystical journey into the forest’s world – an internal experience of self-encounter
SLIDESHOW
In recent years, making visible the quietly existing, yet invisible soul of forests has become a main preoccupation of mine. I am not a nature photographer; I do not photograph trees or birds; still, with their aid, I strive to present a co-existing, yet intangible world. The task is not so difficult; the pictures practically take themselves. Often I feel that they find me. With 20 years’ experience of street photography behind me, I have unexpectedly discovered a mystical world — far from my accustomed “territories” as a photographer — which has no direct links to my earlier artistic style; still it feeds off it. Meanwhile, I have discovered that I do not have to embark on an El Camino pilgrimage to find inner peace; it is enough to take a long hike on one of the hills within Budapest and quietly observe. I consider the Landslides project to be my most exciting undertaking so far. The result of long exposure times and the musical accompaniment reward both spectators and artist with an incomparable experience and tranquility. While similar to guided meditation or hypnosis, Landslides only transports viewers as far as they are willing to travel with it. (67 minutes)
PRESENTATION
How did it occur to me to take deliberately bad motion photographs? With what technique do I achieve the “Impressionist” painterly effect? What is the difference between motion photography and its sharper version? What spiritual teachings inspired the creation of this series? Why, if I were the Ratings Board, would I recommend this slideshow only for those over 18? (And why did it receive a “suitable for all audiences” rating?) How could this format-defying work become a legal form of mind alteration? How was the music composed for the pictures prepared? What is emptiness, and what about it must be discovered? (Introduction duration: 40-45 minutes)
TESTIMONIALS
“It is as though Zoltan were always dreaming while awake. Even his nightmares would be more beautiful than the most beautiful waking lives of others.” | Csilla Markója, art historian
“The boundaries of a moment spread in all directions, and we brought to profound depths as though plummeting. At one point, I was struggling to rush ahead, treading with a heavy body through dense water; later, as an otherworldly bird, I soared sagely above the physical world. I received a guidebook, so whenever necessary, I may step again and again into that mysterious stream that carries one to existential perfection.” | Júlia Nedeczky, mountain-climber
“The Landslides photos seek the heart of nature, Mankind’s original and worldly home, the mysterious and radiant core where we are all one. This series can be experienced as a sort of experiment in restoration. The pictures focus on one point and attempt to illustrate the formlessness that lurks behind form, the colourless within colour. Their arrangement in a series is the quiet, yet staggering story of this search.” | Ákos Győrffy, author, poet and musician