Crystal Gloria, YL-035

Fractal art in the form of a kaleidoscope, an expression of the Nordic Baltic girl's dream of winter and gorgeous flowers adorning the frozen blue sky.

When I was little, my favorite season was always winter. I even dreamed that my wedding would be in deep white winter, and dreamed that my beloved boy was the Northern Lights shooting at night. During school I wondered a lot about why I was born in Latvia, and not for example, in harsh Norway or somewhere in Alaska. Years passed and creative winter projects filled my head from time to time, like the Guinness World Record event to marry 50 couples in balloons on February 14, and travelling to the Alps to fly over them in a balloon in winter...

When Jason suggested that the Fractal Art Balloon Family should grow and include the balloon of my dreams, I gave in to this fantasy.  My dream was about colorful frozen ice flowers, from the same family as Lucy and Fibonacci so it had to be expressed with fractals! The range of colors, like in my dreams, could only be my lovely feminine ones.  Specifically, my favorites: they are pink, all hues of the intense pink palette - light pink, fuchsia pink, a little soft pink. All shades from the range of the light blues - from tiffany blue to sky blue and the blue green palette. And of course yellow - sun, light, and joy. And it all has to be in the form of flowers, because I really like flowers, bright, glamorous, fragrant and bright. My eyes were full of different flowers like this when I lived in Asia.

Another element, mesmerizing and appealing to everyone, is the kaleidoscope. Because so slowly, watching ice crystals form on my windows, there was always a feeling that they are so symmetrical, in continuous patterns, so infinitely beautiful and perfect. I wanted a balloon combining gorgeous flowers in a wintery kaleidoscope, but without neglecting the family of fractals, because in the air we are seen as balloons from one family. Then the artist Eva, hearing all of my dreams, created what can now be seen in the sky, the splendor of “Crystal Gloria”. The girl's name came just as easily as the idea of ​​what my dream balloon should be like. The registration mark of the balloon is YL-035, an intentionally chosen number, because it is at this negative temperature that pure water freezes and forms crystals.