Hamlet Hovhannisyan, who devoted the 10 decades of his life to painting and sculpture, entered the Public Television 10 years ago in search of a job.
Hamlet Hovhannisyan, who devoted the 3 decades of his life to painting and sculpture, entered the Public Television 10 years ago in search of a job. At first sight it was not a creative work: the garden of the First Channel needed a caretaker. Hamlet was admitted, but having held a brush in his hands for 30 years, he could not be satisfied only with the technical work of a gardener. The creative mind did not leave him in peace.
“I did not like how the garden looked; it needed care. Firstly I cleaned the dried leaves and branches, trimmed the trees.” After bringing the garden to order, the gardener passed to a creative work.
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The talent of an artist and sculptor helped Hamlet to make different animals from bushes.
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The hundred-year-old pitcher
Hamlet found this pitcher in the cellar of his brother living in Yeghegnadzor and brought it to Yerevan. He glued the broken parts and brought to the garden. The pitcher was the first sample with which the love story of the gardener and the garden began.
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The blue bird
The next inhabitant of the garden is the blue bird. It came here from its Yerevan apartment, when Hamlet’s grandchildren grew up and preferred other kind of toys. The gardener made a cage for the bird from branches. The blue bird was soon adapted to its new environment. And now it gives smile to the people of the Public Television hurrying to work every morning.
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Animals from dried branches
He does not throw away the dried branches and the pieces of wood gathered in the garden. Hamlet says they are a good material for making a new animal or a bird. This stork, for example, was born that way.
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The favorite place of selfie lovers
“I trimed the trees in spring, and there were many branches. I tied them together, then found boards and wooden wheels. I cut a bush, made it look like a donkey, and it took the cart on its back. Next day young people came there saying they are taking selfies; I did not understand what it means. The important is they like it.”
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The forget-me-not of Public Television
“From the very beginning of the year I saw forget-me-nots symbolizing the Armenian Genocide centennial everywhere. Some made them of paper, some attached to the windows of their cars. I decided that there must be a forget-me-not in our garden, too. I found a suitable place, violet flowers, and soon the forget-me-not was ready. I think it is nice. And it is not only my opinion, many have praised it.”
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Deer from basket
“I had a tight basket at home; I brought it to the garden to gather the harvest. The basket, put under the wall in late autumn, looked miserable. A new idea came to my mind: after a week the garden already had a deer. Then I found 2 pieces of water pipes and prepared horns. When the trees give harvest, the basket will again pass to its work.”
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Inoffensive spiderweb
“There was a tree with long branches, it did not stand the cold and dried, I had to cut it. I weaved the long branches, and it became a web but without a spider. But it is hard to imagine a web without a spider. So I painted a bottle of juice black and attached it to the branches. Soon the web had its owner.”
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He is a lord and a master in the garden of the Public Television of Armenia. Every day early in the morning Hamlet seems not to go to work, but to go to a studio to create new masterpieces.
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