....during the 1999 Ilindentsi Sculptoral Symposium. Sculptors from all over the world had been displaying stone monuments on the local height for the previous couple of years. The place had begun turning into a sculpture store, imposing with its scale. The authors from the ‘7+1’ Art Group decided to accept the invitation to participate and to give an answer to the challenge without simply erecting a new monument. At the topmost point of the height they dug out 25 cubic metres of soil and face the pit formed in such a way with marble. Thus a symbolic crtack – 2 metres deep, 3 metres wide,14 metres long - appeared. It was entitled ‘Something Down Up There’. The symbolic giving the mountain back the stone from its own womb turned out to be one the most powerful gestures in our artistic life as a whole..