Tauseni, Cluj

This is the village where I spent most of my childhood in. Going there and seeing neighbours again after 14 years was truly beautiful. It made me go back in time, especially because I was travelling with a friend as well, and I was trying to share the experience with him. Living life at its most basic form, with no other games but the ones we made up.

The first few pictures are taken at a land art monument build by my uncle Alexandru Chira (1949-2011). Its name roughly translates to "Signs of rain and rainbow"; each of the components has a story and a use i.e. the 'memory mirror' - when you look at yourself in it the second time you will see how you looked the first time you were there. And oddly enough it works, as I remember exactly how I looked, who I was with and how I was dressed up the first time I was there, and I was only about 5. It's probably the fact that you are told this will happen that makes you remember it, but nevertheless it worked for me.

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The trip to "The best driving road in the world" as Top Gear called it.

I don't drive and I haven't seen other best driving roads in the world, but this place really took my breath away. I've seen it before in pictures and videos, but being there, so small in front of something that is so big is rather overwhelming.

I didn't want to just take a picture of the whole road, I focused on close-ups, looking at how the road's curves and levels. I also focused quite a lot on the people around it. Maybe I was trying to see if they seemed just as small as me.

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