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is the first letter of the word fire. I got scared and dropped the match over the old carpets in the museum. I then bent down, trying to find it. I knew the idea of fire, but I didn't know what word it was associated with. A story came to my mind from Borcea, my native village, when, by mistake,
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Adamescu was also an artist who worked with modeling in clay. Between 1983 and 1986 he attended the folk school of fine arts in Cluj-Napoca, focusing on sculpture. He created many forms in clay work, including busts, animals, and buildings. An exhibition of
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without knowing what I was doing, I set fire to the stable. This was when I began to understand that every object has a name. From now on I was curious to know the name of each object around me.
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