Catalogue for the exhibition of the painter and textile artist Zdena Šafka in Villa Pellé, which had the ambition to capture and exhibit all the essential painting periods and textile works of this artist. In a way, the exhibition was a retrospective of sorts. In the year of her seventieth birthday, Zdena Šafka thus mixed paintings and textiles, landscapes and abstractions, oils and acrylics with pastels and watercolours. The colourful and sensitive view of natural things, people and events around us, as well as the fine yarn of imagery, make up a complex and interconnected ensemble that has both a summery esprit and a melancholy that belongs to nature and to the outlook on life. Colour is dominant here, as is its muting and getting lost in indeterminacy. Aesthetic dominance is not a refinement, but a necessity to happily experience the present.