Mihai Barabancea – Falling on Blades The Do Book Co. where the immediacy of the

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

continues his work with found photography

viewed from the perspective of visual art

in the world as it struggles and moves toward ongoing futures

oddly entertaining letters from the Park’s archives

Mihai Barabancea – Falling on Blades The Do Book Co. where the immediacy of 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