The Ascension painting
100X160cm, acrylics on canvas
A custom specific to Sibiel, Mărginimea Sibiului is held on the day of Ispas. Children, young boys on decorated horses, and girls dressed in their traditional holiday attire, gather and surround the crosses (“troite”) in the village, while singing the “cross song”.
This painting is a magnification of the way horses are decorated on the day of the Ascension of the Lord: their heads are filled with colorful spring flowers, and large red tassels, and their bodies adorned very much alike.
