The drawings are a way of understanding myself in relationship with the world around me-of understanding myself as a Balkan and finally as a human being. They represent attitudes, stages of human feelings and places (photographed in Romania and Bosnia). Feelings and places from "where I belong". My series, generally speaking, is not about "where", is about "why" I belong here and not somewhere else. My series is about being aware why I belong to Romania and the Balkans in general. The works are about feelings that I've had during years. Feelings of loneliness, of isolation, of continuous interiorisation. We sometimes feel like that. Isolated, without hope,without escape. We expect to be saved from ourselves by an exterior force. The feelings are "integrated" in specific spaces, currently met in the Balkan region -abandoned places, old buildings...places that are considered to be characteristically or sometimes kind of a cliche for this region by the westerns. A world torn apart by history people and circumstances. A world of doubts, of insecurities, but in essence a true, vivid world. We are alive and passional in everything we choose to do. I tried to capture the "local flavour" in a more serious way, not in a picturesque way as it is generally done. This is me seen through human figures and places from where I was born and from where I currently live.
"Moartea are contract cu mine dat în scris/ Ca să mă ia dormind în vis"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"Death has signed a contract with me- to take me away while I'm asleep"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"Death has signed a contract with me- to take me away while I'm asleep"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
"Nu avem averi, avem doar prieteni care sună să ne spună: Griji de tine, te pup, noapte bună!"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"We don't have any fortunes, we just have friends who call to tell us : Take care of you, good night!"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"We don't have any fortunes, we just have friends who call to tell us : Take care of you, good night!"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
"Nu vrem să simţim cum trece tinereţea, ştim/ Că o să vină o vreme când pentru păcate o să plătim"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"We don't want to feel how youth passes, we just know that it'll come a time when we'll pay for our sins"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"We don't want to feel how youth passes, we just know that it'll come a time when we'll pay for our sins"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
"E prea devreme să fie prea târziu/ E replica pe care o scriu când nu mai ştiu ce vreau să fiu"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"It's too soon to be too late, It's the phrase that I write when I don't know what I want to become"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"It's too soon to be too late, It's the phrase that I write when I don't know what I want to become"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
"Nu vrem să plecăm fără să lăsăm ceva în urmă/ Asta-i munca noastră, unii o simt, alţii o curmă"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"We don't want to die without leaving something behind us/ This is our work, some feel it, some try to destroy it", Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"We don't want to die without leaving something behind us/ This is our work, some feel it, some try to destroy it", Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
"Nimeni de nicăieri, nimic îţi cer/ Vreau doar să-ţi aminteşti/ Dacă nu ne-am întâlnit chiar ieri"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"I'm nobody from nowhere, I ask you for nothing/ I just want you to remember/ If we've met the other day"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"I'm nobody from nowhere, I ask you for nothing/ I just want you to remember/ If we've met the other day"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
"Sunt chiar acolo şi tu nu mă vezi/ Fiindcă tu nu poţi să vezi ceva în care nu crezi"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"I'm right here and you can't see me/ Because you can't see something you don't believe in"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"I'm right here and you can't see me/ Because you can't see something you don't believe in"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
"Eu sunt de acolo de unde tu nici nu gândeşti/ De unde soarele răsare doar dacă-l plăteşti"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"I'm from the place you don't even think about/ From where sun rises only if you pay for it"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"I'm from the place you don't even think about/ From where sun rises only if you pay for it"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
"Pe cord deschis, pe cord deschis/ Inima mea bate cam încet, e trist/ Aş vrea să mă trezesc într-un decor de
vis/ Am cam obosit să merg în cerc închis"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"Open heart surgery/ My heart beats slowly, it's sad/ I'd like to wake up in a dream world./ I've become tired to go round and round in a closed circle", Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
vis/ Am cam obosit să merg în cerc închis"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"Open heart surgery/ My heart beats slowly, it's sad/ I'd like to wake up in a dream world./ I've become tired to go round and round in a closed circle", Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
"Iar atunci când noi poate n-o să mai fim/ Lasă coniacul să curgă, dă-ne o ţigară şi să ne amintim/ De clipele
care au fost şi nu revin"
Desen în cărbune, estompă şi accente de acril pe hârtie, 55 x 76 cm
"And when we won't be alive anymore/ Leave the brandy to flow, give us a cigarette and let us remember/ The past moments that will never return", Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
care au fost şi nu revin"
Desen în cărbune, estompă şi accente de acril pe hârtie, 55 x 76 cm
"And when we won't be alive anymore/ Leave the brandy to flow, give us a cigarette and let us remember/ The past moments that will never return", Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
"Vin de nicăieri şi pot să merg oriunde vreau"
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"I come from nowhere and I can go wherever I want"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
Desen în cărbune, 55 x 76 cm
"I come from nowhere and I can go wherever I want"
Drawing in charcoal, 55 x 76 cm
