Recollection and Reconsideration (II)
Recollection and Reconsideration (II)

Summary/Abstract: As every given present moment becomes past, each time span has its ownresults. The feeling of heritage, cultivated as early as childhood, develops in time, bypositive examples, as a closer connection to history comes with the realization of itsimportance.Two years after the Centenary of Romania’s Unification of 1918, recollection givesa better understanding of the need to continue the work of conservation of culture, ideasand materials, while introducing a reconsideration the past as a living resource.While informing the constant need for new things, the overabundant stream ofimages brings in the certainty formulated as ’nothing new under the sun’.( Eminescu1884). Both images and the Word, which one grows to understand progressively, stay asthe main communicatio in a stronger or less explicit manner. Writing focused onrecollection and reconsideration brings in inspiritng passages. Excerpts chosen in thispaper prove to act as agents in the preservation and conservation of cultural heritage, ofthe Christian Orthodox faith and love for one’s country and people and stand as Romanianideas and forms of artistic expression in sacred artThe idea of a small collection of artworks and images made by students in CulturalHeritage Studies at the specialized section of the Faculty of Orthodox Theology at theauthors’ home University proves this very need to preserve the heritage of 25 years ofexperiece in art education, which needs to be a collective, urgent effort of preservationand conservation.

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