Mark Radovsky biography

In the year, Boris Radovsky moved to America in the year, the American Renaissance has changed his lifestyle as a whole and the profession in particular, but it was behind the ocean that he had been forgotten for a long time in his homeland - enthusiasm for wood on wood. The direct line “USA-Russia” tells how Boris was able to revive in America the “dead” craft there, how a walnut and cherry replaced the plywood and why the craftsman does not want to monetize his occupation.

Ocean Zen is now Radovsky and his family lives in a suburb of Chicago. They had to part with the Minsk family in the year of the collapse of the Union. By the time of emigration, Boris served an officer in the Soviet Army for almost 27 years. The move forced to start a new career path: having arrived at first to North Carolina, he mastered computer programming from scratch and worked in a new specialty before retirement.

Thank God there is something to do - I have my favorite hobby that calms me, stabilizes the emotional state. I just turn on the music and sit down to cut down the tree. ” The reincarnation of school lessons, in contrast to the IT-Carrier who had already started at a new place of residence, the fascination of the former military drilling on wood began much earlier-in elementary school.

For example, I sawed out with an ordinary manual jigsaw: I took plywood boxes from under the packages and saw it according to drawings-they could be bought in a store. Then at school we arranged exhibitions, on which there were my shelves and vases. When I was thirteen years old, I switched to sports, changed my hobbies and until recently I completely abandoned my hobby.

” The only witness of that time - the parents of Boris, retained from the plywood of a vase under the fruit, retained. I saw the very vase that I made when I was 12 years old. She was not in the best condition, Plywood was very dry. Then I asked myself the question: “Can I do something like that after so many years? He was not there, as in the next store that I visited.

It turns out that sawing wood in America has long been forgotten. A good jigsaw was found on the Internet, in local shops - high -quality plywood, copying paper managed to dig up in a warehouse in my office. I did not have a drawing of the first-and-first vase: I made a visual drawing, applying a carbon copy to its ornament. Now a new modern copy is stored in my daughter, and I restored the old vase: I cleaned, polished and wrote on it “Boris Radovsky, year”.

The Mastodont community of the further revival of the hobby was also helped by the world network. Googling, Radovsky discovered that in Russia the art of carving has not yet died and is even popular. Surfing on the Internet helped to find many sites on which the masters shared their ideas and laid out the drawings of products. Thanks to them, another simple vase and box appeared in the collection.

In this case, the difficulties were associated only with the tool itself: sawing a manual jigsaw - the process is not easy. I contacted his leader and soon came to the club meeting, where I brought my products. Of the young in a mug - nobody, only grandfathers, much older than me. They were sincerely surprised that I did all my work with my hands. They said that they saw a manual jigsaw only in childhood, now no one has been drunk.

They liked my work, and they convinced me to buy an electric jigsaw. On the Internet, I ordered the best - the German brand of Hegner. ”Plywood turned out to be another element of retrograde - high -quality wood replaced it in the new century. The material, of course, can be bought in a store or online, but I order it from my friend, who lives in North Carolina.

He is engaged in harvesting wood, and then sells it with workshop, which make salon furniture. The planks of the size and thickness I need and come to me by mail. ” The next step was the search for drawings: most of the design ideas of his future products Radovsky also draws on the network, and then modernizes and improves them. He is fond of art, travels around Europe and has a license to shoot exhibits in the museum.

From different plans, he photographs old vases and caskets that people saw out a century ago. Then, on the basis of these personnel, he creates three -dimensional computer models of his products, virtually disassembles them into pieces, makes flat prints and sells these plans. ” A Victorian-style tablet in the collection of Boris Radovsky is dominated by Victorian style, representatives of Ar-Nuvo are also found.

In the exposition, there are both standard boxes of different sizes and vases in fruits, as well as unique samples. One of these is a style stylized under the antiquity, which is something like a player. According to Boris, she did not lose relevance - now it is especially convenient to put a tablet on her. In addition to a complex design, the product is characterized by a complex pattern: the clothes of a boy playing on the harp depicted on it are formed by very small details - only about the holes sawn with a thin file.Also, among complex works, for example, the dressing rooms done a year ago are listed.

It took four months and two types of wood to manufacture the item of the interior: a lighter cherry went to the upper decorative layer, and a dark nut went to the substrate. Radovsky is an opponent of paint: he covers his products with different types of varnish, and recently he completely switched to a more reliable polyurethane. In the living room of a small house in the suburbs, you can find a barometer, a mirror, a table lamp cut out of wood.

On the rack in the dining room there is a basket for storing tea bags or an original cruium. The role of the gallery in the house is played by a cabinet in the living room. Here, behind the glass, a small casket, caskets, frames for the photo are stored - one stores a frame, on which Boris’s mother is captured at 19 years old, his daughter at the same age is at the other. The most difficult thing presented on the shelves is a walnut watch with a small fantasy decor and an intricate assembly.

The clock is the favorite of the craftsman and the most numerous representatives of his wooden panopmic. The design of some of them-desktop walkers in retro-style-he came up with himself: the author’s watches are decorated on the sides of the bronze heads of lions, decorative animal paws also give stability. I buy a dial and its details on the Internet. I choose the best - from Germany and France.

” On the wall in another room, a clock hung with a cuckoo repulsing every hour, and near the cabinet -gallery -a watch with a pendulum. Their manufacture took about a month and a half. I go in for sports, take my grandchildren's training. Together with our wife, we go to museums, to symphonic concerts, we go to the movies and to the sports club. Although we are retired, we have many different activities.

” The home workshop in Chicago Boris and his wife moved four years ago. There was no club of artists of wood carving, but there was a place for his workshop. In North Carolin, she was replaced by a garage where an electric jigsaw hidden. Now the machine has taken its place right in the Radovsky house: in the basement, Boris equipped a small workshop, adjacent to the master’s working computers and the piano of his wife, a musician.

In the “corner” of Boris - nothing superfluous: the necessary small manual instrument in the face of a saw, hammer and pliers and, of course, hegner itself. Instead of special vacuum cleaners - a fan that directs dust to the filter located opposite. Boris’s refusal and the course of charity, according to his admission, never sought to commercialize his hobby: everything he does, he does for himself, his friends and daughter.

In the club, we also arranged exhibitions before Christmas at which we sold Christmas toys and decorations we made. We transferred all the money to the sponsored hospital, where we treated oncological patients. I do not advertise myself anywhere, I do not want to do something for sale. People are now very critical of what they see, cannot fully evaluate the thing. They are used to the fact that everything is being done in China or India today, which means that this is a cheap, for which it is not necessary to give a lot of money.

It turns out that I have to spend a couple of hundred hours and just sell my work for a penny. Why should I?