On the Wings of Wind
In the past few years every festival-goer had a chance to see windmills, the festival’s constant and natural elements, always in movement thanks to the rising winds that come and go as returning guests of the Valley’s wonderful microclimate. This is also true for Kardoslaci, the creator and maker of the amazingly beautiful Ozorian windmills, in whose life air, and even more so, wind, is a recurring element. In his own words: “I don’t know what brings us together yet, but somehow our paths always keep crossing.”
Kardoslaci is a true jack-of-all-trades, but working with plastic stands closest to him. He had learned this skill back in Hungary in a shipyard workshop and then traveled around half the world, to Sweden, Germany, the Netherlands and South-France, producing speedway bike parts for example. Kardoslaci’s first meeting with this subculture was in 2006 when one of his friends invited him to help in building and upkeeping the Ozorian Chill stage location. That’s when the first windmills were born, which have been set up year after year in front of the Pumpui ever since.
Thanks to the windmills’ huge success in 2008, the owner asked him to make a couple more. This is when the rotaries were adorned with tails and the rooster, the dragon and the fish were created. After this he worked abroad for a long time, but as he says “something always brings you back.” In 2012 the Magic Garden asked him to make a kinetic statue – you can see it above the arch in the Garden. This project was one you could meditate and think about, tinker on. At the same time, the first white windmill was made on the hilltop above the Main Stage, which was welcomed with great happiness. In 2013 he made the windmills for the Main Stage’s 10 towers and also 4 colorful ones with multiple rotaries. In order to create them, he moved down to the territory already on 20th May and established his workspace in a solitary old shed.
There is always only one windmill (except the ones on top of the towers) made at a time, so if he had to name them, he would perhaps call them Prototype. Though the planning and the work process is naturally led by Kardoslaci, he says that when the windmill is ready, it’s always the wind that decides when it will set it into its natural motion: that’s when it turns out how it really looks and how much refining needs to be done.
Windmills: Kardoslaci and the wind’s very own children.
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