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“НАШЕ ЖИТТЯ”, КВІТЕНЬ 2010 11 Lighting a candle. That simple, mundane act — one which I have repeated almost daily for most of my life — is what draws me into the world of the pysanka. I strike the match, I bring it close to the wick of the candle, it catches, emitting a whiff of sulfur mixed with the smell of beeswax. A light plume of smoke rises from the flame into the air around me. That flame is my entry into the world of the ancients, whe re life revolved around legends and rituals, where people were content to believe in the intangible, where life moved to the slow yet relentless rhythms of natures. . . . the pysanka makes me a part of the bezkonechnyk — the eternal line that stretches throu gh time and place from ancient Ukrainian villages to my brownstone in modern - day Manhattan . – Sofika Zielyk Наша обкладинка Софійка Зєлик народилася в Ню Йорку і здоб ула вищу освіту з історії мистецтва в Ню Йорк - ському університеті ( New York Univer sity ). Ще дитиною вона навчилася від своєї мами писати писанки та розписувати кера міку. Згодом вона почала професійно зай матися цими традицій - ними формами україн ського на родного мистец - тва . Софійка регу ляр но доповідає про писанки та кераміку; її твори виставлялись в таких відомих уста новах як Metropolitan Museum of Art , American Museum of Natural History , Museum of Arts and Design (колишній American Craft Museum ) у Ню Й орку та в Посольстві України у Сполу чених Штатах Америки у Вашінґтоні . Інтерв ’ ю із Софійкою були опубліковані в ”New York Newsday”, ”The World and I” та “The New York Daily News”. У 1992 році Софійка була першою американкою українського походжен - ня, твор чі c ть якої була виставлена в Україні – в музеї ім. Тараса Шевченка в Каневі та в музеї ім. Тараса Шевченка в Києві . У 1993 р. в Україні було опубліковано двомовну книжку про писанки “ Пише Писанки Бабуня, пише Мама, пишу Я ”, автором якої була Софійка . Нещо давно Софійка стала повним членом престиж ної Спілки Народних Майстрів України. Our Cover Artist Sofika Zielyk, a native New Yorker, holds a degree in Art History from New York University. She began making pysanky and ceramics when she was six, having lea rned the basics of these traditional Ukrainian art forms from her mother. What began as a hobby developed into a pro fes sional pursuit. Sofika has lectured and ex hibited her work at numerous venues, most notably at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Ame rican Museum of Natural History, the Mu seum of Arts and Design (formerly the American Craft Mu seum) in New York, and the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, D.C. Her pysanky are in the per manent collection of the Ukrainian Museum in New York, The Ukrainia n Museum and Library of Stamford in Connecticut, the Embassy of Ukraine in Washington, D.C., and the Pysanka Museum in Kolomyia, Ukraine. Interviews with Sofika have been published in New York Newsday , The World and I , and The New York Daily News . In 1992 , Sofika was the first American of Ukrainian de scent to exhibit her work in her ancestral home land (Taras Shevchenko Museum, Kaniv and Ta ras Shevchenko Museum, Kyiv) . In 1993, Sofika’s bilingual book, The Art of the Py - sanka , was published in Ukraine. T he artist invites readers to view her Website at sofika@sofika.com. The photos featured on the cover were taken by the artist’s father, L. Zielyk.
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