Thousands of flowers or thousands of flowers. The inciter of this series of images was the little coloured glass beads from the glassworks of Venice. These colourful products even became a parallel currency in Black Africa, and in the worst cases a few of these beads was the price of a slave.

On the other hand, that name now designates a large number of flowers, even a whole meadow of flowers, and thus the spectacular gardens of the wise. These flowers are synonymous with intoxicating aromas.

Each one of us can find the aromas stored in nostalgia with the Millefiori. Images are guides for dreams and meditation.

Herbert Hamak

The calm in air

comes

from the fragrance.

Joseph von Eichendorff

and the next sentence

Infinite fragrance

without limit of colours

Herbert Hamak

The author explains that both citations complement each other. The sound and rhythm of the first are difficult to translate. Herbert Hamak speaks of an infinite smell and of limited colours.