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Relations
First thing that caught my full attention after entering the gallery was of course the enormous canvas with hyperrealist depiction of a spruce forest by Adam Kašpar (“Smrkový prales”). I believe this was the case for many of us, as not only the size of this work, but also the amount of detail and time…
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Women’s Empowerment Through Mountains: Research
Women from different nationalities, different cultures and languages, different past, and stories, meet in the mountains with a goal in common; find themselves again. Mainly because nature is healing. Nature is soft. Nature is powerful. Mountains are the tip of these attributes. For this reason, during my research, I’m going to let other women’s experiences…
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Pilgrimage
While delving further into my research that revolves around the meaning of mountains in eastern philosophies, I thought about what would make it easier. If only there was a place that has shares its meaning with all, or at least most of the major philosophies/religions. To my luck, such place indeed exists – the mountains…
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Mountaining connections
When I’m asked about my relationship with mountains, what I think of first have to be my earliest memories. My parents took me and my brother to the Alps when I was about three years old, we were hiking, cycling, and exploring and I was ecstatic as I could be. What I liked the most…
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A Place of Focus
For as long as I can remember, I have mostly associated mountains with beauty and mystery. The ability to go off the trail and discover a new place, perhaps one that has not been touched by any other human before, is exhilarating. Yet there is one particular feeling which is very close to me when…
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What it feels like to conquer a mountain
I think I’ve always had a great ‘relationship’ with mountains. Because I was born and have lived all my life in Šumava, nature and mountains in particular are constantly part of my life. However, what might be slightly surprising is the fact that although I live just a couple of miles from a great ski…