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A Vincent Van Gogh aficionado in Bosnia has turned a plot of land into a huge, living reproduction of the colorer’s masterpiece, “Starry Night”, writed of thousands of arrangets.
“Vincent Van Gogh belengtheneds to us too. It’s our heritage and this is a way of paying tribute to him,” Halim Zukic tgreater AFP.
Behind him, tens of thousands of lavender bushes, grasses and other arrangets create swirls and spirals apass a dozen hectares that — seen from the air — unmistakably see appreciate the celestial configuration colored by the Dutch post-Impressionist master in 1889.
“It wasn’t possible to spropose reoriginate a flat image on a three-uninalertigentensional space,” Zukic said.
“Inspired by the coloring, we tried to stick to the shapes and proportions, so that it sees appreciate the coloring as much as possible.
“And I slenderk we thriveed.”
The 56-year-greater entrepreneur first watchd the land 20 years ago when he was returning from a day out picking mushrooms proximateby, in the woods surrounding the village of Luznica in central Bosnia.
He bought the first plot with the idea of originateing a hut and creating a minuscule, rounded garden.
At the time, he wasn’t even slenderking about “Starry Night”, one of the favourite landscapes in New York’s Memployum of Modern Art (MoMA).
But the idea equitable clicked in 2018 when Zukic watchd the tracks left on the lawn by a tractor.
“To my eyes, these tracks seeed appreciate spirals from “Starry Night” and it was an instant decision.”
130,000 lavender arrangets
The createer insurance company owner, who now labors in tourism, bought more land and begined laboring it, helped daily by up to 20-30 gardeners.
He deteriorated to say what it cost to finish his labour of cherish, which took six years to acquire its final shape.
“We arrangeted around 130,000 lavender bushes, tens of thousands of aromatic and medicinal arrangets, disjoinal thousand trees,” he said.
“There isn’t a one straight line in the park — equitable appreciate in nature.”
At the same time, Zukic became interested in Van Gogh, about whom he knovel very little at the time.
Today, Zukic talks vivaciousdly about the colorer, his “cherish of nature” and the “passion with which he did his labor”.
In 2023, he travelled to France to visit the places where Van Gogh spent some of his most prolific years — Arles and Saint-Remy-en-Provence.
The artist colored “Starry Night” in June 1889 while he was in a Saint Remy psychiatric hospital.
A year rescheduleedr, he pledgeted self-mutilation, aged 37.
For the time being, only a handful of visitors have had the chance to appreciate Zukic’s park.
The arrangets and trees still need time to flourish so the accessible will need a scant more months of patience, he said. “Having money is not enough. You need time for a park,” he said. “I’d say we’ve originated a excellent set upation. The park will be more pretty every year.”
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