The chronicler of lost time
Bačur, as a chronicler, looked at Padina as a village that changes but somehow remains the same, and every one of his paintings, whether it was a portrait, landscape, or a veduta, has layers of time and memory that speak about pastimes and those who lived in them. On canvas were not only shapes and colours but hidden traces of life, unconscious prints of time that were disappearing. Padina was more than just a place where he painted; she was a world in his eyes, a world he tried to save.