Rascruci – Crossroads

„E o carte curcubeu care apare in orizontul unei dezradacinate existente osenesti… Un decupaj sufletesc de fotografii scrise cu lumina si scoase dintr-o straita cusuta cu dorul unui Oas curat, pur, nealterat, ivit din memoria inimii. Trasaturile identitare constante, avand amprenta puternica a obarsiilor intra intr-un dialog tainic si dinamic al adaptabilitatii permanente, cu acele cai de evolutie care imprima schimbarea, transformarea, dislocarea… Constelatia reperelor identitare ce individualizeaza comunitatea traditionala oseneasca este reprezentata simbolic de CERC prin configurarea lui la toate nivelurile existentei sub forma unor coduri incifrate ale arhitecturii launtrice: clopul – in portul barbatesc, cununa miresei, roata feciorilor – in dant, ciuperca de dant, crestaturile cosmologice de pe crucile de lemn, roata cu sase spite de pe vranita cu boc, cercul stilizat pe ceramica de Vama, colacul solar, floarea vietii cusuta pe panza alba. Osenia devine astfel sursa unei constiinte a geometriei spiritului cu care construim lumea din interiorul nostru, ancorand-o astfel in proportiile perfecte ale sacralitatii. In satul traditional, exista o unitate intre cultura si civilizatie, substituita ireversibil de un anacronism care s-a creat treptat, de-a lungul mai multor decenii, intre credintele si valorile spirituale ale osenilor si transfigurarea lor in materialitatea formelor vizibile din arhitectura, stil de viata, viziune despre lume, intrare si iesire din ritual… Aceasta ruptura definitorie, dar nu definitiva pentru Oasul de azi, a fost generata de disparitia randuielii stravechi si a nevoii de sacralitate in lumea in care traim… patimind prin siajul dramatic al insingurarii dintre omul care priveste o floare, fara a simti ca pe cer tresare o stea…” (din „Argument sufletesc”)

"It is a rainbow book that appears on the horizon of an uprooted Oas existence… A soul cutout of photographs written with light and taken out of a bag sewn with the longing for a clean, pure, unaltered Oas, born from the memory of the heart. The constant identity features, with the strong imprint of the origins, enter into a mysterious and dynamic dialogue of permanent adaptability, with those evolutionary paths that have printed change, transformation, dislocation… The constellation of identity landmarks that individualize the traditional Oas community is symbolically represented by the CIRCLE, through its configuration at all levels of existence in the form of encrypted codes of interior architecture: the hat – in the man's dress, the bride's wreath, the young men’s wheel – in the dance, the dance mushroom kiosk, the cosmological notches on the wooden crosses, the sixspoke wheel on the vranita with boc, the stylized circle on Vama pottery, the solar braided bread, the flower of life embroidered on white cloth. The Oas way of being thus becomes the source of a consciousness of the geometry of the spirit with which we build the world within us, thus anchoring it in the perfect proportions of sacredness. In the traditional village, there is a unity between culture and civilization, irreversibly replaced by an anachronism that was gradually created, over several decades, between the beliefs and spiritual values of the Oas people and their transfiguration into the materiality of visible forms in architecture, lifestyle, vision of the world, entry and exit from the ritual… This defining but not definitive rupture for today's Oas was generated by the disappearance of the ancient order and the need for sacredness in the world we live in… suffering through the dramatic slipstream of loneliness between the man looking at a flower, without feeling a star tremble in the sky…" (Excerpt from "Soul Argument")