Title: "Praslea cel voinic si merele de aur"

mixed media, 2006

8 x 16 inches

This is a painting for children and for the child in everyone of us. My Romanian friends will feel familiar with it because it represents the a Romanian fairy tale - "Praslea cel voinic si merele de aur" - about a prince who had to guard his father's gold apples tree, from a monster who was stilling the gold apples. So the prince had to watch for the tree every night, in order to find out the thifh and knock him down. And so begins a very beautiful tale, that my mom and grandma use to tell me as bedtime story when I was a baby, and that I will tell my children when the time will come.