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Luminiscējošās gleznas Ķemeru dumbrājos

Explore glowing bog at Ķemeri National Park

Open-air luminescent artworks at Ķemeri National Park invite you to explore the bog around the clock, Latvian Television reported September 4.

As the sun sets, LTV arrives at the heart of Ķemeri National Park - the Forest House. Slowly it is getting darker and 12 luminescent artworks begin to shine through thick mosquito clouds.

"This luminescent exhibition of paintings, I would say, is something new, unprecedented, innovative, because that's how it all came about - we knew that there would be an electronic music event here at the end of August, and we were kind of anxious. We wanted to add an electronic music event, to educate the public about nature, wetlands, mudflats, bogs - everything that we have around us here, and that's how the idea came about to bring artists together, art enthusiasts together, to introduce them to bogs and their values."

The paintings were created in a plein-air workshop organized by the Nature Conservation Agency, and the authors are mostly local artists from Ķemeri.

The task was to depict the natural values of the bog and its inhabitants. Two of the works were painted by Agnese Čamane and Elīna Grāvelsiņa, who are nature education specialists. Elīna Grāvelsiņa says: "My work shows what a bog is. It's a place where sky, trees and water meet. It is at least for me. And when the Northern Lights came in May, it was still all wrapped around the Northern Lights, which was the source of inspiration. You can see the alders in the picture, and everything is interwoven together - you can't tell if it's the view from above or from the water, if the trees are like shadows or really coming out of the water."

Agnese Čamane, meanwhile, says of her work, "I was inspired by Uģs Piterāns, who is one of Latvia's best-known insect researchers. I had read his entry about a fallen spruce tree, which he called a golden stump, where he had found several species of insects, some of them rare and unusual, which made him very happy. So I have depicted part of it here."

Every night at 1 o'clock, the works fall into total darkness, but by then, as even the smallest shades of light change, previously unseen images and elements pop up in the works.

The paintings look completely different during the day. The original plan was to set up the exhibition in the trail around the Forest House, but the July storm closed it, and it is hoped that visitors will be able to see the next idea conceived by the Nature Conservation Agency's staff there at the end of October.

The luminescent paintings will be open to the public until October 6.

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