Mihai Barabancea – Falling on Blades The Do Book Co. Feathers interweaves memories and the

Feathers interweaves memories and the present with comments on apparently minor matters

oddly entertaining letters from the Park’s archives

viewed from the perspective of visual art

where the immediacy of the gesture of drawing combines a strong poetic sense with an element of social critique

Mihai Barabancea – Falling on Blades The Do Book Co. Feathers interweaves memories and theTo 'accidentally fall on a blade thirteen times' is a sardonicand rather poeticway of saying to get stabbed.'It doesnt always kill you, but it always hurts. And still youve got to roll with the punches and keep going. I find this ability to roll with the punches, to take the pain and adapt to circumstances, in my subjects: gypsies, beggars, crooks, vagabonds, underdogs, conmen, buskers and various shady characters in Romania and Moldova. My object is