Maramures is known for its woodwork.
“Cand ma gandesc la Maramures, la folclorul nostru si la felul întamplator în care am pastrat ceva din ce a fost, imi spun ca aceea ce stim si admiram noi (laolalta cu atatia straini) reprezinta poate numai resturile si firimiturile unui banchet al zeilor.”
Constantin Noica
Poienile Izei – Maramures, Romania
”The greatest gifts you can give your children are the roots of responsibility and the wings of independence.” Denis Waitley
“What is real is not the external form, but the essence of things… it is impossible for anyone to express anything essentially real by imitating its exterior surface.” Constantin Brancusi
Cimitirul Vesel/ The Merry Cemetery is located in the village of Sapanta, Maramures County, Romania. It belongs to Naïve Art and represent a sensational masterpice without any equal in the world. The irony, very often just friendly is present in almost all epitaphs painted on each cross of Sapanta Cemetery.
“The origin of Naïve Art”, wrote Victor Ernest Masek, “must not be search in the history of genres or the artistic currents, but in the spirit”. Ioan Stan Patras shows us death as a huge joke, coverting “tears into smiles” where an ancestral wisdom and the mythology connect and as a effect, the spirit reintegrates in nature.
People from Sapanta, perhaps even the pilgrims see through the Merry Cemetery a way to understand and accept death making peace when something ends.
“Every religion implies that it treats the problem of being and nonbeing, life and death. Their languages are different, but they speak about the same things.” Mircea Eliade
Maramures is known for its woodwork.
“Cand ma gandesc la Maramures, la folclorul nostru si la felul întamplator în care am pastrat ceva din ce a fost, imi spun ca aceea ce stim si admiram noi (laolalta cu atatia straini) reprezinta poate numai resturile si firimiturile unui banchet al zeilor.”
Constantin Noica
This “machinery” is a rustic device used for washing heavy clothes (blankets, rugs, wool). Valtoarea from Maramures is a real example how some traditions can be kept. Local people say this vortex cleans better than most sofisticated electronic washer. I’m very content each every time when nature beats technic.
Atlas Tracer 