Fujiko Rose Unveils Venice Masterpiece – Landscape Artist of the Year – S05 EP9 – Art Documentary

Join Fujiko Rose, winner of Landscape Artist of the Year, as she unveils her breathtaking Venice masterpiece commissioned by the Royal Institute of British Architects. Follow her journey through the historic city, capturing the essence of Venetian architecture, facing challenges, and exploring the environmental issues threatening this iconic location. Experience the excitement, artistic process, and Ruskin’s influence in this unique episode. Discover Venice through Fujiko’s eyes and witness the creation of a significant art piece that reflects both tradition and contemporary concerns.

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[Music] hello and welcome to the Royal  Institute of British architects in London   where you find us in a state of excitement  and anticipation yes because the winner of   landscape artist of the year 2019 Fujiko  Rose has completed her prize commission  

To create a work of art the city of  Venice and it’s about to be unveiled   for the very first time as a keen crowd of  family invited guests and our own esteemed   judges gather it’s almost time for the  Moment of Truth we can’t wait [Music]  

This year over a thousand talented artists applied  to compete for landscape artist of the year   just 48 were chosen to take part the prize a ten  thousand pound commission from the prestigious   Royal Institute of British architects across six  Heats they’ve pushed their artistic talents to the  

Limit but one artist consistently stood out from  all the rest the landscape artist of the year 2019   is Fujiko Rose wow that’s one of the best things  you can really ask for isn’t it being an artist   it’s a bit of a birthday present for me since  my birthday’s in three days [Music] [Applause]  

Now Fujiko is on her way to Venice it’s so  different I’ve not been anywhere like this so   it’s exciting she’ll be following in the footsteps  of 19th century British artists writer and lover   of Venice John Ruskin he says that buildings are  like old people and we should take care of them  

Facing some particularly  Venetian artistic challenges   I’m getting myself confused about all the  proportions this is all going to be really wonky along the way she’ll be meeting up  with some old friends actually if   mankind has the audacity and the imagination  to create this then we’re not doing too badly  

You don’t know where to look do you so  so much to see and she’ll experience it   firsthand the environmental dangers facing the  city order is sort of the friend and the foe   or fairness it’s what makes it so special  and different but it’s what’s damaging it oh can you swim

[Music] the artwork will be the first  major Commission of her career and will   be unveiled in front of an invited audience  at the Royal Institute of British architects   I loved her work throughout the competition and  how it evolved future loves the challenge and so  

I really can’t wait to see what she’s done this  time because I think it’s going to be brilliant [Music]   it’s three weeks since the final of landscape  artist of the year and winner Fujiko Rose is   at home in well in Garden City although  its business as usual in the studio today  

The past few months have been something  of a roller coaster I still find winning feeling of obviously there’s happiness  I’m so chuffed I just feel it’s quite   it’s quite overwhelming yeah Fujiko gained  a place in this year’s competition with a  

Delicate textured drawing of her family home  and went on to win her heat in gateshead   where she brought a Timeless quality  to the city’s Millennium Bridge for the really really nervous actually and then the semi-final I was  just so happy I’d made it through  

In cromity her evocative drawing captured  the haunting beauty of the oil rigs [Music]   to the finals just the idea of winning made me  feel like I really really want this after a long   night in Battersea her striking night view of  the power station and a breathtaking commission  

Drawing of lanterny Priory ultimately one  Fujiko the title of landscape artist of the year it’s just really fitting that we’ve got  an artist who’s ready to go out and do   it properly I mean you know I think her and  Venice are going to get on like a house on fire

A few weeks on from the excitement of her win  and Fujiko is preparing for an upcoming Art Fair   a full-time professional artist and currently  divides her time between her own artwork and   the design company she runs with her mother  Curry my mom has been a big influence in  

Terms of the Arts and Design side I hope  this has gone through okay because she’s   Japanese a lot of the Heritage and the kind  of culture that I’m exposed to because of   this has definitely been very influential and  something which I like to bring into my work  

This Pico has just turned 22 and lives  at home with her mum and dad Richard   she’s always scribbling crying from the time that  she could pick something up and draw with it she   loved it she works more hours than most people  and that’s a testament to the love she has for  

The work I was of course so pleased for her and  it’s just amazing what she Fuji does is she sees   something she likes but it has to be her own  style that made her her own type of art really fujiko’s prize for winning landscape  artist of the year is a ten thousand  

Pound commission from the Royal  Institute of British architects   today she’s come to the headquarters in central  London to find out the details of her brief there may be some nerves about creating a piece  for you know such a kind of a world-renowned  

Establishment I think it’s more overwhelmed by  the kind of excitement the riba was established   in 1834 to promote excellence in architecture  both here and abroad they’ve commissioned our   winner to produce a work which captures some of  the most celebrated architecture in the world

Fujiko’s here to meet the institute’s  president Alan Jones thank you welcome to the Royal Institute of  British Architects fabulous to be   can I tell you a little bit about the um the  commission yes please that’d be great to hear  

Okay you will be going to Venice because it is  the bicentenary of the birth of John Ruskin John   Ruskin was the leading sort of critic and theorist  of the Victorian era and he was a painter and he  

Had a particular interest in Venice I don’t know  that much about him as a person but I’ve seen like   some of his work which is like his drawings  are beautiful Don Ruskin was one of the most   important cultural figures of 19th century Britain  a Critic writer and also a talented artist Ruskin  

Fell in love with Venice when he first visited the  city as a young boy he returned many times during   his lifetime to document its architecture in his  writing and in countless sketches and paintings   yet despite the Majesty of the Venetian  architecture by the late 19th century  

The city’s buildings had fallen into a  state of disrepair that horrified Ruskin he wrote to his father describing Venice like  a sugar lump in a cup of tea he was concerned   about the condition and the decay of Venice  mostly through poor conservation and poor repair  

Of buildings and that agenda is still there  but it’s also about the environmentalism and   Venice is right up there in terms of what  happens if we’re not careful about how we   treat our world a lot to take in was anything  that you quite want to see represented in the  

Commission piece in a way we leave it to you  in that you’ve got Ruskin and in his time it   was about the deterioration of the fabric  but now we have the a greater bigger risk   if you like of the rising sea it’s perfectly  timed and for something for you to explore

Can I show you where your work is going to hang  right here front and center huh no pressure yeah   yeah with the scale and significance of her  Commission Now becoming clear it’s time for   Fujiko to turn her thoughts to Venice and the  challenge ahead well I mean I can’t really ask  

For a more glamorous [ __ ] can I this has made it  more exciting for me I’m really excited to go it’s   actually it’s like I’m ready just let’s do this  with just a few days to go until she leaves for  

Venice fujiko’s in her studio and has started on  her packing those boxes with labels but the labels   don’t mean anything because you go in it’s like oh  this is a box with pigments in no it’s sellotape during her trip she’ll be working on several  Preparatory drawings I’m basically putting this  

Whole pack in here fit wherever I can in charcoal  Fujiko Works mainly in Indian ink using a dipping   pen and brushes on handmade paper I don’t  plan on working on white with the colored   papers or textured papers as they kind of give  us like sort of like like a romantic feel to it

There is a bit of that kind of romantic sense  to fairness also you know if I’m looking back   at having an eye on the past as well it’s quite  nice I’ll try and fit the paper into this so if  

It’s this this and essentially a pencil  case then I’m pretty much set to go yeah for centuries artists and writers like John Ruskin  caught their first glimpse of Venice from the   water and today it’s fujiko’s turn I like this way  of traveling it’s a feels quite glamorous [Music]  

Thank you [Music] just got out of the airport  straight onto the taxi boat which is very cool it’s so different I’ve not been  anywhere like this so it’s exciting Winner of landscape artist of the year  Fujiko Rose is in Venice to research   her prize commission for the Royal Institute  of British Architects she’s following in the   footsteps of 19th century British art critic  John Ruskin whose books established Venice as  

One of the architectural wonders of the world  Fujiko is staying at Hotel La calchina on the   spot where Ruskin lodged in 1877 during one of  his many visits to Venice to start her off on   her journey she’s joined by artist of the  year judge and expert on Venice Kate Bryan welcome to Venice

So you have the best commission Reba have  asked you to paint a scene of Venice we’re   commemorating the bicentenary of Don Ruskin  Ruskin spent a long time here meticulously   recording every building every corner every stone  was interesting to him so today our entire vision  

Of Venice our understanding our passion a lot of  it comes from Ruskin Don Ruskin first visited the   city in October 1835 aged 16. 20 years later he  published one of the definitive books on Venice   the stones of Venice was a love letter to the  city which celebrated the beauty of its art and  

Architecture but also contained an impassioned  warning for the future of its fragile buildings   so I’ve got a little present for you this is a  traveler’s edition of the stones of Venice it’s   really beautiful little book and I wanted you to  see this because this is really ruskin’s rationale  

Behind writing this he was really worried about  the fact that the city was sort of dissolving   before his eyes and so he says here what he’s  so worried about I would Endeavor to trace the  

Lines of this image before it be forever lost and  to record as far as I may the warning which seems   to need to be uttered by every one of the fast  gaining waves that beat like passing Bells against  

The stones of Venice I’m so excited to get you out  there onto the water to see these buildings that   Ruskin really really brings to life in this book  but there’s nothing like seeing them in the flesh   fujiko’s here in what John Ruskin called The  Paradise of cities he saw its architecture as  

The closest that human Ingenuity would ever  get to God’s Own Act of Creation [Music]   thank you I think the thing I like about Venice  every time you come you’re as thrilled and as   excited and surprised and gobsmacked as the  first time you came that actually never goes away  

The architecture Ruskin described so vividly  in the stones of Venice was built between the   9th and 15th centuries when Venice was one of  the richest cities in the world an independent   republic with an Empire stretching across the  Mediterranean they were hardcore Bankers they  

Were Mercantile if you think about it this was a  Melting Pot for the entire world so really it’s an   intersection between the East and the West it’s  just so different to like um anything isn’t it   said look this is one of my absolute favorite  buildings anywhere in the world kadoro this  

Building got Ruskin is so excited the Venetian  Gothic architectural style is characterized by   elegant Waterfront Colonnades delicate stonework  and distinctive pointed arches you see the height   of these windows which is how exaggerated they  are and it’s this idea that you’re kind of like  

Shooting up it’s like the glory of God but can  you see just the level of detail and ornamentation   there’s some really lovely um windows and glass  work my favorite quote about Venice is by Anthony  

Burgess and he says if you despair of man go to  Venice because if he can build a city like this   his soul deserves to be saved and you think  yeah actually if mankind has the audacity and  

The imagination to create this then we’re not  doing too badly we’re just now going to save it   Hey look it’s the reality Bridge  wow oh my goodness that is amazing   and so now look Fuji this is just one of the  most exciting views in the world this is the  

Doja’s palace the Campanile and San Marco Square  just through there oh [Music] Mark square and its   famous Basilica were for John Ruskin the most  beautiful buildings in the world but he was   increasingly dismayed at how little was being  done to protect them from the ravages of time

Nearly two centuries later this fragile city  is more vulnerable than ever this is where you   can see the flooding rising sea levels due to  climate change and the pressure of 30 million   tourists each year are damaging the fabric of the  city now ruskin’s fears seem more like a prophecy

Wow it’s packed isn’t it I know we’re  slightly constricted by the water Saint Mark the patron saint of Venice  this is his church it’s like nothing   else on Earth it’s completely covered with  The Spoils of their amazing Republic it is  

The most sort of magnificent building it’s  showing off and saying we’re doing really   good I mean you don’t know where to look  do you it’s so so much to see so you can   see all the different tracery the stonework  the marbles The Columns the amazing arches  

The horsemen I mean it’s just endlessly  interesting there’s so much to look at Fujiko will have the next four days to  explore Venice she’ll be looking for a   view that suits her style and captures  the spirit of this extraordinary City

Getting a bit of a sense of this very special  very complex City I have to wish you good luck   your following in the footsteps of loads of  artists you’ve got to avoid all the cliches   and you’ve got to do something which is very  distinctly Fujiko and I cannot wait to see it  

It’s going to be a challenge but it’s a welcome  challenge for sure yeah very welcome challenge during his time in Venice John Ruskin spent  many hours sketching the buildings he wrote   about in the stones of Venice to try  her own hand at capturing the details  

Of Venetian Gothic fujiko’s return to the  Palace of cardoro on the Grand Canal [Music]   I’ve got a picture on my iPad of John  ruskin’s sketch it’s more colorful than   I expected actually watercolor sort of kind of  half finished one I love John ruskin’s drawings  

Or House of Gold is the best surviving  example of Venetian Gothic architecture   pleated in 1430 it was once home to one of the  great aristocratic Venetian families I’m getting   myself confused about all the proportions  this is all gonna be really wonky [Music] [Music]  

At first I did a very simple pencil sketch just  to get a rough sense of what I’m planning on   including and then I’ve just moved on to this  brown ink and it’s a mix of using the brush  

And the dipping pen and using some water washes  I’m just going bit by bit as much as I like the   structure they are something I usually would  avoid sketching just because there’s so many   things and I sort of struggle to get it all in  there suddenly I’m missing half of the columns  

I think I chose too much of it like I should  have just taken a smaller part of it to sketch go with it now it’s gonna be some  Moody building slightly evening View Okay okay let’s see with her first Preparatory sketch complete  Fujiko returns to Hotel La culcina to reflect   on her first day in Venice it’s interesting  to be here in the location that Ruskin stayed   himself and to try and go to these places  which he himself visited and the fears of  

His time are still very much prevalent today  it’s so rebranded my discussion with Kate and   how venice’s incredibly vulnerable  to things like the rising Waters it’s interesting looking at the problems  knowing I’m sort of part of the problem   coming here on playing and it’s  uh you are aware of it it’s just  

Sort of like an ironic it’s going  to be a slightly ironic drawing Landscape artist of the year Fujiko  Rose is in Venice researching her   winning commission for the Royal  Institute of British architects today she wants to explore a different side to  Venice away from the Grand Canal and the crowds  

Of Saint Mark’s she’s come to meet Nelson kishey  a Japanese artist who’s lived in Venice and been   inspired by the city for 30 years then this is  like a Labyrinthian here in my area every day or   every moment is different [Music] Kishi studio  is in the residential district of canaregio  

He’s offered to take Fujiko out sketching in  the day-to-day world of ordinary venetians am I sit on the driver the woman came known to hang the clothes I like  these things just as part of their life [Music] foreign Can you swim as Kishi returns home to dry  off Fujiko chooses to stay in   quiet Canna Regio where she’s found  a view that’s caught her imagination all of the interesting things with meeting Kishi  today was walking through some less postcard areas  

In a sense and not what you would normally see  in the photos The View that I found is sort of   peeking through this rather open Rail and it has  all the different sort of components which I think  

You can find in Venice of like the boat and the  water and the posts and this is sort of weathered   wall and the gothic arches how does that sort of  romantic Vibe but I think you can see the effects  

That you have being next to the water and how  much that kind of Damages the structures [Music]   today’s a bit Karma because in a way  I’m not trying to recreate something   like a Ruskin drawing or thinking about the  different kind of masterful pieces of Venice  

So with the ink drawing whatever’s in the  foreground I’ll do first then the second   layer is the foliage and then the third layer is  going to be the building behind with the gothic   arches because if I draw The Arches first if  I want to do like a wash or anything it just  

Becomes like a whole big mess you’ve got to  work the opposite way around to paint [Music]   a nice little spot isn’t it back in the center of the city the environmental  issues facing Venice are unmistakable   but there are campaigns to limit the number  of tourists and flood barriers are being  

Constructed to protect the city from the rising  tides John Ruskin was one of the very first to   argue that the great buildings of the world  like those in Venice must be preserved for   future Generations an idea that was to become the  foundation of today’s attitudes to conservation  

Fujiko’s come back to Sunmark Square to meet  up with historian and Ruskin expert Emma stenio   one of the things that was mentioned to me as  well was ruskin’s concern about the damage that   would be done to Venice how to deal with that  you’ll find in Ruskin a perspective which has  

To do with buildings but can be easily translated  into a lesson about life it says that buildings   are like old people and we should take care of  them the the sense of this was that we have to to  

Preserve them to be healthy to be well to be happy  and so on exactly exactly and taking care was not   to damage of course but also to know to know  the story of it because when you start knowing  

The story it’s a it’s an act of love love is a  is a very strong word for asking the the sense   of loving of taking care of sympathizing and all  this as I’m learning more when you know those kind  

S for details when you look at them  at them you see more of it and you   enjoy it more and you care more as well  when you know this is what Ruskin meant   it was this great love for the city of Venice that  made it so hard for Ruskin to witness the neglect  

He saw before his eyes but he wasn’t the first  artist or the last to fall for the Venetian dream [Music]   the 17th century Venetian painter caneleto was  one of many to construct so-called impossible   views playing around with the layout of  the buildings some famous artworks even  

Appear to have been painted from  right out on the water [Music] Ruskin also tried sketching in a gondola and  he struggled with it so I’m not expecting   to be creating any masterpieces here this is  gonna be the dodgiest drawing I’ve ever done [Music]  

Is it hard is it very hard you have a lot of  movement you know left to right something like   this [Music] but for today’s artist there’s a  slightly easier way of capturing The View [Music]   I think one of the benefits of Photography is  that later on when you go back and you work  

On the piece as you always find bits  that you’ve missed in person [Music] they’re two separate sketches but I’ve sort  of made them into one with the addition   of some random Bridge [Laughter]  just a little quick sketch [Music] thank you thank you

As Fujiko has discovered the rise and  fall of the water is the heartbeat of   Venice the city sits in a shallow Lagoon on  the North Adriatic Sea and when the first   peoples arrived here in the 5th Century  A.D they settled not on Venice but on the  

Nearby smaller island of torcello today  Fujiko is taking a trip across the Lagoon   Jose early start today just saw the  sunrise over the Lagoon which was amazing   it’s very nice to see some nature around as well  it feels quite different and that’s nice [Music]  

This is the next Ruskin stuff as he also visited   torcello and wrote about  it in the stones of Venice Don Ruskin called torcello  the mother of Venice its   first inhabitants were refugees fleeing  the Barbarian forces of Attila the Hun

Fujikos come to their Cathedral Santa Maria  asunta in the stones of Venice Ruskin praises   the beautiful Simplicity of its architecture in  contrast to the buildings of its more flamboyant   neighbor it has evidently been built by men fright  and distress who sought in the hurry direction  

Of their Island Church such a shelter for the  Ernest and sorrowful worship as on the one hand   could not attract the eyes of their enemies  by its Splendor and yet on the other might   not awaken two bitter feelings for its contrast  with the churches which they had seen destroyed  

Foreign ‘s ancient Cathedral stands on a  stretch of low Marshland overlooking the Lagoon   taking advantage of the Tranquility fujiko’s  found a quiet spot down by the water   coming to churchillo you do really feel the  difference it’s a very calming quite Serene  

Place it’s a lot more like open space so  the view that I’m drawing is very simple   little little Jetty but there’s a couple  little posts and there’s a little red gate   what I find really appealing with drawing like  an intimate View and it’s this feeling of taking  

Away the kind of distance between yourself in  the painting and the scenery inside it and that   feeling of being able to go through and almost  touch it you can walk through or walk into it I’m just taking my camera I’m just gonna grab  a quick photo as it’s starting to rain [Music]  

With water A continuing theme Fujiko returns to  her room at La calchina to finish her drawing foreign because it was the start of Venice it was where  the first people came to before building Venice   and that history behind it is also what I  found to be quite interesting so I’m not  

Trying to literally put in you know people  running away from barbarians you know that’s   not what I’m trying to put into the work  it’s also about the future of Venice and   I really want it to be kind of a balance of  the kind of past the present and the future  

Sort of try and inject all those things in  in such a way that they come together [Music] landscape artist of the year Fujiko Rose  has spent five days exploring Venice from   small canals and shaded Alleyways to magnificent  palazzos she’s spending her last day sketching  

The famous grand canal the artery of the city and  a view that John Ruskin Drew many times [Music]   I’ve decided to draw the Grand Canal in this  direction I thought I should challenge myself a   little bit and do something which involves more  Dimensions than I’m comfortable with normally

The composition I’ve chosen is about 60 foreground  and the reason for that is in a way if I was only   drawing the Grand Canal I feel like I’d have to  pay more attention to the details unlike all the  

Windows and then there’s too much whereas if I  focus on what’s near me the background could be   more like in a soft focus that’s just my way  of dealing with such a vast amount of things   like so many artists before her Fujiko  will leave then is inspired by the complex  

Perspectives and changing light of this floating  city Venice has been something that has really   challenged me it’s made me try and think  about composition differently in places   it’s different exploring a city with the thought  of creating a piece of artwork made me stop and  

Look at those little uh bits and details  and I think that’s really uh stuck with me this will definitely be a special trip for  me just completely unlike anything else   I will miss it but I would love to  visit again at some point [Music]

Back home in well in Garden City Fujiko  is working hard on her Commission [Music]   he’s using the Preparatory sketches from  her trip to Venice plus some inspiration   from John Ruskin himself to  create her final composition chose this building which is  sitting on the water and it  

Has the gothic arches and it has these  beautiful details and it also has that   sort of wear and tear that you get  from being so exposed to the water all the drawings I did it’s quite funny when  I look at it actually there’s little elements  

Of each one so in a way actually in some ways the  balance is more similar to the the one that I did   on the first day but I think I’ve tried to take  the feel of the kind of more out of the way places just starting to draw what’s actually the most  

Detailed part of the picture at the  moment which is just around the door I think the actual process of drawing  I’ve never found relaxing I’m sure a lot   of athletes the actual process isn’t exactly  calming as such but there’s such satisfaction  

From it I like coming up with the ideas  in the first place and you know climb up   the mountain when you’re drawing it and  then you’re at the top end at the end as the artwork develops fujiko’s made  some decisions about the kind of story  

She wants it to tell she’s Keen to  evoke the history of Venice but also   to reflect the Contemporary  City and fears for its future I’d say between like a third to a half of  the picture that I am drawing will be water  

The water is sort of almost leaking out  it’s not contained water is sort of the   friend and the foe of Venice it’s  what attracts people it’s also what   makes it so special and different but it’s  what’s damaging it what it’s sinking into

One of the things I have which is quite  bold in the picture is a feature it’s this   sort of diagonal line like a beam of light coming  across the picture everything that’s in the light   is a quite well-defined and the  parts which are sort of swallowed  

Up by the darkness if you will  I’ve sort of obscured a lot of it the really scary part is  just how it all sits together I think commissions can be scarier and you really   want to please the people you’re giving  it to that’s quite intimidating actually foreign

[Music] fujiko’s winning commission will be  unveiled at the Royal Institute of British   architects in London it’s six weeks since she  won landscape artist of the year and six months   since she first submitted her drawing to  the competition and the work is finished

Today is definitely a milestone this is my first  sort of proper commission definitely a big event   I think when the red cloth comes  off I’ll be staring at my shoes as an audience of friends family and our IBA  members gathers in The Institute Gallery there  

Are three guests in particular who’ve  been looking forward to this moment   I’m really excited I think Fujiko is one  of our best winners her work is you know   it’s incredible and it’s new and I’m seeing  anything like that and also we have a perfect  

Marriage yes between Venice and fuduca  it’s really exciting but I’m expecting   to see something quite Mastery and large yes  and and detailed and intense anything else thank you welcome everyone to this very special occasion  we’re here to celebrate the winner of the  

Landscape artist of the year 2019 who’s going  to unveil her work here she is Vegeta Rose but before we see the finished artwork we’re  going to hear from the man who commissioned   it it’s Alan Jones who is the president of  the riba welcome everybody to the riba for  

This very special event the riba it has over 4  million pieces in its collection that are shown   here publicly in this building and also around the  world so Fuji’s piece of work will be in very good  

Company so I’m very very interested to see what  Fuji has created for us ready it’s a great moment here we go oh I think Ruskin would be pleased very  very much so very impressive and I’d   like to look at it in much more detail  this is a really wonderful work of art  

And you’re to be congratulated  well done well done [Applause] I know you’re a good artist but I’ve never  seen you know I didn’t think you could do   Monumental this is really monumental and as  I look at it the drawings are drawing me in  

Close there’s more and more stuff to look at  there’s just so much there and it’s magical I really feel like you and I saw this  together on the grand canals I feel   really special that I was there we wanted  something big we wanted something which we  

Thought about the past but also talks  about the present we wanted a little   dash of gold she’s completely spoiled to us  we’re ruined now I like the urbanness of it   too even though it is this sort of ancient  city there’s a grittiness to the Elegance

Here we show the ink can still  do the business well Fujiko has   done us really really proud and  it’s a wonderful piece of work very very impressed I think it really  captures Venice and the beauty of it but  

Also the vulnerability I think it will sit very  well in our public building it’s a great piece what exactly I won I didn’t really like  sink in and like being here I just feel   the scale of it it’s amazing getting  such a positive response is definitely  

Something that’s going to stay with me  makes me want to push myself more and   try more and do more and so that’ll be I’m  looking forward [Music] thank you [Music] foreign