A work in progress...
Liminal Reflections: A Poetic Exploration
My current body of work finds its pulse in the liminal, the spaces in between, where time folds and reality flickers. I’m drawn to places where the everyday and the extraordinary blur, where absence and presence echo in quiet tension. Cities become thresholds, facades become mirrors, and reflections offer alternate truths.
Spaces speak of past and present, of utopian dreams and their unraveling, ready to be filtered through my own lens and laid bare in brushstrokes within the liminal silence of my studio. Each place lingers in a state of temporal suspension. They mirror my own in-betweenness, both physically and emotionally.
But perhaps the most intimate threshold is my late father’s factory. Once a site of mechanical function and routine, I reclaimed it as a heterotopic space in Dust Production, transforming industry into introspection. There, amidst dust and echo, a dialogue emerged between what he built with his hands and what I now build with mine. Between production and reflection, between legacy and art.
These spaces shape my journey: from idea to photograph, from site to studio, and finally post-liminally to the gallery, where the work waits to be seen. To step into the world as part of Croatia’s contemporary visual language. In every step, I am negotiating perception, memory, and constructed reality.
Drawing from photographs, I reframe everyday architecture and overlooked spaces as reflective portals. These are spaces that exist in-between, caught between presence and absence, history and becoming. These works are not replications, but re-visions. Gestures toward a construct of reality that is at once personal and collective. In the quiet of my studio, I translate these spaces through the lens of paint: layering brushstrokes over time-stilled photographs, searching for the real in the reflection.
This journey, from eye to lens, from photograph to paint, from solitude to exhibition is a movement through liminality itself. My work becomes both witness and artifact of this unfolding.
