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BUCHAREST, ROMANIA 🇷🇴: ONE DAY I WILL FIND THE RIGHT WORDS

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One day I will find the right words, and they will be simple. ~ Jack Kerouac





20aug17 Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴 

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA: LET SLEEPING DOGS LIE

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“Să se culce câinii dormit”

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13aug17 Bucharest, Romania

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA 🇷🇴: LOST

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“The soul which has no fixed purpose in life is lost; to be everywhere, is to be nowhere.”~Michel de Montaigne

13aug17 Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴 

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA 🇷🇴: MEMORIAL OF REBIRTH AND THE BROKEN MAN

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“Broken Man” Iuliu Maniu: Great liberal democrat, last honest man, spent his final years in a bleak Communist prison, froze to death and was thrown into an unmarked mass grave.

This is Revolution Square, where Romania’s Communist-era dictator, Nicolae Ceauşescu, was publicly overthrown in December 1989.

Below, is the controversial “Memorial of Rebirth, (Memorialul Renaşterii)” which is a monument in central Bucharest that commemorates the struggles and victims of the Romanian Revolution of 1989, which overthrew Communism. 

It was designed by Alexandru Ghilduş, and features a 25-metre-high marble pillar as it’s centerpiece and reaches up to the sky, and on top, a metal “crown” is encircling it.

It’s original name was going to be “Eternal Glory to the Heroes and the Romanian Revolution of December 1989” (Glorie Eternă Eroilor şi Revoluţiei Române din Decembrie 1989). The name “Memorial of Rebirth” alludes to Romania’s rebirth as a nation after the collapse of Communism. It’s an incredibly significant time in Romania’s history so it’s a shame that so many people seem to dislike the monument so passionately.

Pretty much everyone acknowledged the need for a memorial commemorating the 1989 revolution, the monument sparked major controversy when it appeared in 2005, mainly to do with its design. Many artists stated that the memorial, especially its central pillar, was devoid of any symbolism, being too abstract, and thus didn’t adequately represent the suffering and magnitude of the 1989 revolution, which claimed around 1,500 lives. (wiki)

The Memorial of Rebirth has been described as “a potato skewered on a stake”, an “olive on a toothpick”, “the potato of the revolution” and “the vector with the crown”.

Owing to its relative unpopularity, the monument is guarded round-the-clock. Despite this, on the night of 12 May 2006, it was vandalized with a stencil graffiti figure representing the fictional revolutionary character “V” on the side facing the National Museum of Art. (wiki)

In 2012 the monument was defaced a second time with a splash of bright red paint that was delivered just at the bottom of the monument’s “potato” by an unknown person. This caused the monument to look as though it is bleeding. The paint is so inaccessibly high that it has remained in place since it was placed there. (wiki)

13aug17 Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴 

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA: POETIC SENSE OF DECAY

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14aug17 Bucharest, Romania

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA: THE PAST…HAPPENING OVER AND OVER AGAIN

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“There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.” ― Eugene O’Neill, A Moon for the Misbegotten

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14aug17 Bucharest, Romania

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA: ALOOF AND COLD

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“Time goes by, time comes along,
All is old and all is new;
What is right and what is wrong,
You must think and ask of you;
Have no hope and have no fear,
Waves that rise can never hold;
If they urge or if they cheer,
You remain aloof and cold.”                                                                                                         – Mihai Eminescu

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14aug17 Bucharest, Romania

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA GRAFFITI: STRADA ARTHUR VERONA

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13aug17. Bucharest, Romania

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA 🇷🇴: THE HUNTER

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“Ah, sir, you dwellers in the city cannot enter into the feelings of the hunter.”                        ― Bram Stoker, Dracula



7aug17 Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴 

BUCHAREST, ROMANIA 🇷🇴: PALACE OF THE PARLIAMENT

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After the 1989 revolution, it became known as the “People’s House.” Nicolae Ceaușescu, their communist leader, had it built. There was, and still is, lots of controversy surrounding it because he ordered the leveling of monasteries, factories, and neighborhoods in order to see his grand dream fulfilled. Many average Romanians suffered, and thousands worked on the construction, including soldiers under forced labor. They say about 3,000 people died while working on it. It is also said that he modeled the project after Pyongyang, North Korea. Easy to see: dictators full of greed while the citizens are impoverished…in due time, PEOPLE WILL REVOLT. Hence, Ceaușescu and his wife were finally stopped in 1989, given a televised mock trial, and SHOT DEAD on live Romanian tv. 


6aug17 Bucharest, Romania 🇷🇴