UNIQUE PHENOMENON IN EUROPE

"The Muddy Volcanoes. An odd pairing of two words that seem to exclude each other: volcanoes, symbols of fire, and mud which evokes earth and water. And yet, this syntagm expresses a reality that is as interesting as it is spectacular. A distressing, barren, white land. A desert where only water trails show that not everything is inert and that an explorer has set foot here in search for an explanation. Water inhabits volcano craters, some situated at the plateau level and others perched and hollow on top of volcanic cones. The small cones constantly provide debris that dribbles, drips, overlaps, embodying the notion of flow, of plastic sliding. The water, after building this world returns to wash it away, to undermine it. Hallucinating phantasms, the Muddy Volcanoes resemble a lunar-like surface where only the rippling of gas and water eruptions remind us that movements exist even in this remote world."

Professor Marcian Bleahu