György Németh's Early Writings: Various Melodies

Various Melodies (Különféle dallamok) is one of the best-known early writing and notebook series by György Németh (working under the artistic names Szigetingy and Szingy), the Budapest-based writer, pharmacist, and visual artist. Characterized by its lyrical tone and reflective sensibility, the project occupies a distinctive place within his early creative work.

Published on online platforms such as the György Németh – Szingy Art blog and the Szingy Gallery Budapest websites, the series belongs to an early period of the author's development. It predates both his more refined creative writings and the mature formulation of the Szigetingy Philosophy, evolving alongside his prose fragments collected under the title RP's Story (The Story of Péter Révházi).

Main Characteristics and Themes

Evocative Sentences:
The writings take a highly distinctive form, often consisting of single-sentence reflections, concise observations, or fragments of thought. The author sometimes describes them as “Notes of a Pharmacist” or “Notes of a Photographer.”

Artistic Symbiosis:
Entries in Various Melodies rarely stand alone. They typically accompany visual works, atmospheric black-and-white photographs, vintage portraits, or classical paintings, enriching them with additional layers of meaning and interpretation.

Philosophical and Lyrical Tone:
The texts explore themes such as human existence, the art of slowing down, silence, transience, lost loves, springtime, and the small wonders of everyday life. A characteristic reflection from the series reads:

“Art is not a series of answers, but the quiet whisper of questions into infinity.”

Literary Significance

Various Melodies can be viewed as one of the earliest manifestations of the artistic and philosophical sensibility that would later culminate in the Szigetingy Philosophy. Through its fragments, poetic observations, and contemplative tone, the series reveals the author's enduring fascination with memory, beauty, light, silence, and the subtle dimensions of human experience.

György Németh – Ars Poetica

I never intended to become a philosopher.

I began as a pharmacist and learned that life is both fragile and precious. Later, photography taught me to notice what often goes unseen: a face, a winter light, a fleeting moment. Writing gave these experiences a voice.

For me, art is not self-expression. It is attention.

I am not searching for extraordinary things. I am searching for the meaning hidden within ordinary ones.

I believe that beauty appears when we truly look, that memory lives in small details, and that silence is not emptiness but a form of presence.

The Szigetingy Philosophy grew from this conviction: that the deepest experiences of life are often the quietest.

I do not wish to invent new worlds.

I wish to notice the light, the fragility, the human closeness, and those rare moments when we feel at home in the world.

György Németh
Author of the Szigetingy Philosophy | Szingy Gallery Budapest

From Pharmacy to Philosophy

How György Németh's Creative Journey Led to the Szigetingy Philosophy

What does a pharmacist, a visual artist, and a writer have in common? In the case of György Németh (1959), these three paths converged to create the Szigetingy Philosophy, a contemporary worldview centered on silence, beauty, fragility, memory, and presence.

Németh's professional life began in pharmacy, a field that demands precision, responsibility, and a deep awareness of human vulnerability. Years spent in healthcare, scientific publishing, management, and education provided not only professional expertise but also a unique perspective on the fragile nature of human existence.

Alongside his scientific career, he developed an artistic practice rooted in photography. His images focused less on documenting reality and more on capturing moments of quiet presence: a face, a winter landscape, a play of light, an atmosphere. Through photography, he learned the value of attention and discovered meaning in what is often overlooked.

Writing became the next step. Aphorisms, reflections, and short essays gradually explored themes that would later form the foundations of the Szigetingy Philosophy. Concepts such as silence, memory, intimacy, beauty, and the moment appeared first in creative texts before evolving into philosophical ideas.

A third influence came from digital abstract art. Through the Szingy Digital Art series, Németh investigated the relationships between light, chaos, form, and perception. These visual explorations raised questions that philosophy would later seek to answer.

The result was not an academic system but an organically developed way of seeing. The Szigetingy Philosophy emerged from lived experience, combining scientific discipline, artistic sensitivity, and literary reflection into a coherent vision of human existence.

At a time when contemporary life is increasingly defined by speed, distraction, and information overload, the philosophy offers a different perspective. It suggests that the deepest dimensions of life are often the quietest ones.

As Németh's work consistently reminds us, beauty, fragility, memory, and presence are not secondary experiences. They are among the foundations of what it means to be human.

(Adrienn Bukta, BuktaRT)

https://buktakalap.tumblr.com/post/828645718543794176/from-pharmacy-to-philosophy

Bill Gates: We Face One of the Most Confusing Eras in Human History Due to AI

Whenever new technologies emerge, there is always a moment when reflexive alarm and the desire for understanding clash. Behind Bill Gates’s words, I see not the sowing of fear, but a profound realization that artificial intelligence is not merely a tool, but an extension of human thought. History teaches us that every great epochal shift – from the invention of printing to the birth of photography – initially brought confusion and uncertainty. From an artistic and creative perspective, AI does not diminish human uniqueness; rather, it holds up a new mirror in which we must redefine the meaning of creation and presence. Confusion does not necessarily mean chaos; it represents the fertile zone of uncertainty where old patterns no longer function, and new ones have yet to take shape. 

Both as a pharmacist and a visual artist, I find that true breakthroughs are always born where boundaries blur. We should not fear machines, but rather the loss of our openness and our critical yet empathy-driven vision. In the period ahead, our most crucial task will be to preserve inner equilibrium and amplify authentic human values. The future is not happening to us; it is being shaped by us, day by day.

György Németh, Szingy Gallery Budapest

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Retro Review: LAST MAN STANDING (1996)

Walter Hill’s Last Man Standing is less an action film and more an exercise in spatial cynicism and shadow. Stripped of the romanticized noise of modern blockbusters, it presents a sun-baked ghost town where silence, dust, and morality carry the exact same weight. Hill understands that solitude in cinema is not merely a narrative state, but a visual architecture – where every doorway and empty street reflects the internal erosion of its characters. A underrated study in stark, uncompromising minimalism.

Gyorgy Nemeth, Szingy Gallery Budapest

#Szigetingy #Movie #Film #Review

Fotós-gyógyszerész (szigetingy)

Szingy Galéria Budapest | Egy fotós feljegyzései „Lenyomni az exponálógombot annyi, mint lefoglalni a valóság egy töredékét, amely egyébként örökre eltűnne. Nem csupán képeket készítünk; árnyékokat mentünk ki az idő folyójából, fókuszált tekintetünket pedig tartós tulajdonná alakítjuk, amelyet a szív bármikor újra felkereshet, ha csendre vágyik.” Németh György kreatív író (szigetingy kreatív írás) 

#szigetingy #KreativIro #EgyFotosFeljegyzesei #NemethGyorgy 

{Németh György Visual artist, Kreatív író és Gyógyszerész https://sites.google.com/view/nemethgyorgy1/visual-artist-kreatív-író-és-gyógyszerész}

In abstraction (szigetingy)

Photographer-pharmacist and Creative writer „In abstraction, the image is not a finished statement, but an open question that the viewer completes with their own history. By removing the familiar shapes, we invite the soul to wander freely, turning a wash of light and shadow into a personal, lasting sanctuary.” György Németh Szingy Gallery Budapest

#szigetingy #PhotographerPharmacist #CreativeWriter #SzingyGallery #GyorgyNemeth #VisualArtist

{Gyorgy Nemeth (szigetingy) Visual artist, Creative writer and Pharmacist https://sites.google.com/view/nemethgyorgy1/visual-artist-creative-writer-and-pharmacist}

A 'good' image (szigetingy)

Photographer-pharmacist and Creative writer „A 'good' image is not measured by the mechanics of its birth, but by the weight of its presence. If a picture makes time stand still, the hand that guided the process – human or artificial – becomes secondary to the silence it creates.” Gyorgy Nemeth Szingy Gallery Budapest 

#szigetingy #PhotographerPharmacist #CreativeWriter #SzingyGallery #GyorgyNemeth #VisualArtist 

{Gyorgy Nemeth (szigetingy) Visual artist, Creative writer and Pharmacist https://sites.google.com/view/nemethgyorgy1/visual-artist-creative-writer-and-pharmacist}

Art is not an answer (szigetingy)

Art is not an answer, but a question that opens slowly. A patch of light on a wall that never fully reveals, only suggests. And perhaps it is in that incompleteness that we truly begin to see. ~ Gyorgy Nemeth (szigetingy) creative writer 

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Gyorgy Nemeth Twitter (szigetingy) https://x.com/szigetingy 

Gyorgy Nemeth (b. 1959), Digital Abstract No. 14

Gyorgy Nemeth Visual artist (b. 1959), Digital Abstract No. 14, Szingy Digital Art, Szingy Gallery Budapest 

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Gyorgy Nemeth (b. 1959) Visual artist – Digital Abstract No. 14, Szingy Gallery Budapest