travels

"The Japanese have a word, 'natsukashi,' which means 'a thinking back to pleasant past events coupled with a desire to go back to that special place.' As an artist, I find myself wanting both to recapture my experiences and to transform them. I tried to use photographs that accurately describe 'the moment' that all travelers experience, but also to create an extension of that moment, to integrate it with words and people and objects and impressions that lingered." 

That is how the artist Marianne Vecsey describes the inspiration for her "Travels" series of 20 mixed-medium pieces that chronicled her journeys around the world. With her own photographs as a starting point, she expands the scene outward using watercolors, pencil and collage to create a world that exists somewhere between reality, interpretation, memory and sensation. 

This 10-card set comprises five original paintings: Santa Fe, N.M.; Cuenca, Spain; Puebla, Mexico; Thailand and Egypt. The box includes two cards of each painting. They measure 4x5.5 with a matte finish on high quality card stock. They are blank inside and each box includes 10 white envelopes.

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