The village of Cerna in the Vaideeni commune, the southern Valcea County, resounds these days with the sound of chainsaws by artists from all over the country at the National Festival of Sculptors with Chainsaws, an event that reached its seventh edition this year, write Agerpres.

A relatively new art, chainsaw sculpture has become a landmark for the Valcea commune since 2017, when the first edition of this festival took place, unique in Romania at that time, because there are not many in the country who dare to shape wood with this tool used as a rule to destroy, and not to create.

From year to year, the event in Vaideeni grew and more and more artists came to the Valcea locality, attracted by the beauty of the places, but also by the themes chosen by the organizers. It is the same this year, when the challenge given to the participants by the organizers is to „return”, a kind of plea for the rediscovery of the beauty of this special area in Valcea County.

„I’m doing absolutely everything in the sense of sensitizing young people to see that the area can be beautified by us, not by someone else. The theme is 75pct intended for public places. We are beautifying and creating a tree of life with roots firmly planted in the earth here, in Cerna,” the host of this event, Adrian Bondoc, says.