The recently opened exhibition "Waltz of Flowers" amazed everyone by its singularity. On October, 9th the meeting of an artist Olga Ryzhova with the Youth Club of the Jewish communal centre "Rimon" took place in a showroom of Hesed "Polina". The occasion was attended by the director of Hesed "Polina" Inessa Chugaynova and the director of the Republican Jewish library Galina Korobkina who introduced the author of wonderful works located on walls, stands and a piano in the showroom.

The artist, a professional builder, told the youth how she took on creativity. The beginning was put by… the broken crystal wine glasses. Olga was bewitched with the play of light in the splinters and started crushing the crystal glass in a mortar. Since her childhood Olga loved dimensions and preferred plasticine moulding to drawing. She decided to make something unusual, dissimilar to creations of other artists and unquestionably volumetric from the sparkling granules. Thus a technique "Crystal Mosaic" was born. Then there was a search for other media, forms, techniques, and the artist also took a great interest in ancient ribbon embroidery which suggests dimensions as well as unlimited imagination.

The youth who came to the encounter is a young generation of the community, educated inquisitive and intelligent. More than twenty persons listened to Olga Iosifovna's story about her creativity and exhibitions in Kazakhstan and abroad. Answering the audience’s questions, the artist said that it takes her more than a month to proceed from a sketch to completion of a picture as the technique is complex, layered and requires time. Responding to the question whether it is difficult or not to part from the pictures she said that it is always different. Some of them are like children; it is hard to depart them. Others she gives away easily. But if a picture is sold, the artist lets it go to live its own live and to please the new owners.

The event was lead in a warm and friendly atmosphere. In the end of the event the youth thanked Olga Ryzhova, Hesed "Polina" and the Jewish library for an interesting and inspiring meeting with the remarkable artist.

Lyudmila Starodubova