HOW IT’S STARTED

    Sometimes in life, great journeys start unexpectedly: without a plan, without any coordinates, way too far from the final destination, kindled by curiosity, by obstacles and by the unknown waiting to be revealed.

    It was winter. Late in the evening. All angels seemed scattered away by the blizzard and the bitter frost. Petrification advanced slowly… slowly…

    A simple phone call broke this frozen picture and set me in motion. Within seconds, it cast away the winter, it called back the angels and the energy of summers in May blasted in my face. 

    Strange or vaguely familiar words came rushing to me: WINGED, PAVEL BUCUR, ASPIRATION, STRAJA, BASS-RELIEFS, MONUMENT, ANGELS, FLIGHT, WINGS, BLAZE,  SCULPTOR, ROMANIA, YOUTH FLAME, DEVASTATION, FREEDOM, THE HIGHEST IN EUROPE, DETACHMENT, WHITE ANGEL, DANUBE- BLACK SEA CANAL….

    My mind yearned for information and certainty.

    From that very first moment of the phone call I started to search in a feverish pursuit to discover what might be called “The spectacular and dramatic story of the highest Monument in Romania”.

   It was a journey between contemplation and investigation, between fascination and suspense, between unexpected geographic coordinates and most familiar places.

   I will give you an artist: Pavel Bucur. With his winged flight to worlds still unveiled…

   I will give you the most amaising modern art monument in the world, the highest in Europe and Romania : THE WINGED OF STRAJA, on the Danube- Black Sea Canal.

   This  puzzle starts with “Once upon a time…”. But the end is still open…