Midnight zone
200 x 300 cm
hand crafted (tufted) rug
cotton threads and New Zealand wool
Since childhood, I have loved the sea, ocean, bodies of water in general, even when they seemed like places where your last moment might happen. I am certain I was intentionally born far from the sea and water, just so I would always keep wondering.
The sketch for this work was created partly on an island, and partly after waking up from a dream about escaping to an island.
Island, island, island.
I live my days obsessively searching for fragments of a completely non-specific island.
Only a kilometer below the ocean’s sunlight zone begins the midnight zone, lightless space where life adapts, soft, fragmented and sometimes barely visible. Organisms, traces, currents, everything moves without a clear direction. Everything repeats,, returns, collides, lives freely far far away, never knowing about the other worlds above it.
#rug #textile #nzwool #rugtufting
paintings made during @serious_ensemble_zagreb concert “Air traffic control” / 13/02/26 at @ck_maksimir
Serious Ensemble Zagreb presented an evening where sound, image, and movement converged in a singular immersive experience. The program, centered on Slovenian flautist Alenka Bogataj, brought together music, live painting, and video, creating a performance in which each element responded to the others in real time. Croatian visual artist Petra Šabić joined the ensemble for the first time, painting live on stage as the music unfolded.
The concert featured contemporary works for flute, violin, and accordion, including several pieces making their Croatian debut, as well as the premiere of Vanishing Points by Croatian composer Sanda Majurec. Accordionist Martina Jembrišak and violinist Eva Mach contributed soloistic passages, enhancing the interplay between musicians, visual art, and projected video.
#immersiveexperience #seriousensamble #visualarts
SHAPESHIFTER
100 x 100 cm
oil
2025.
Since I had experienced one of the biggest and most impactful losses up to this point in my life, I finally see death as a friend.
Death was really close to me throughout the last year. I begged it to be kind, I was fearful, I tried to forget that it is inevitable, and I even laughed at its absurdity. But nothing worked, because it was something I circled around but could never influence.
I moved through days as a shapeshifter, sometimes in a solid state, sometimes vapor.
Also, when death is here, the body becomes almost image-like, present but also radically unreachable. The spirit, on the other hand, redistributes itself into a new version of silence.
Grief made me no longer push everything away, and I no longer rush to become; I just stay with being.
Death made me fragile, soft, and finally free.
In ancient cultures, beauty was not preserved in the mirror but in memory.
And memory does not freeze what it loves. It lets it change, blur, soften. It allows the dead to keep moving.
#oilpainting #contemporaryart #kunst #malerei
