"...Gligor Stefanov create contextual, environmental installations which may be included in what Rosalind Krauss generally refers to as a extended field of sculpture's action, or as it is elsewhere called a site-specific sculpture. In his case, it is sculpture derived from natural materials pointing to the unique features of the place where their are created or to the broder environment which influence their characteristics by its total energy. In his usually two-dimensional painting/sculpture objects, Gligor Stefanov uses straw which is immersed in the essence of the local color. But, as with gold in Byzantine icons, straw is for him also a metaphor of (sun) light and an alchemic formula for the liberation of things material. His winged objects hovering and rising towards the sky, or hardly touching the ground in their transparency, are symbolic signs of the striving towards absolute space: they denote space as a sphere, as a dome or firmanent which is the center of metaphysical unity. To enter his environment is to come to know the accumulation of material and spiritual energy inside it. According to Stefanov, it is equivalent to a liturgical ritual, to the act of building a temple..."