Postcards from Europe
pencil on paper, engraving on aluminum plate, 2025
Little reminders of little joy = much needed in our circumstances. Let’s appreciate the fact that we are able to sit down and have a beer and let’s not get over-consumed and over-stimulated too much. We are not machines nor should we aspire to be. We’re brainwashed into thinking that the constant grind after money and success will full-fill us or satisfy us and that our worth is determined by our working hours. Everything needs meaning behind it and nothing is ever worth our time and money. We’re slowly forgetting what makes us human and when it’s too late we’ll be sorry. If we’re privileged enough to stop for a moment and just exist, we should do that. For those that can’t and in the face of those who don’t want us to. We should not simply accept our current lifestyle, we should protest it by taking our time and enjoying doing nothing or everything, purely because we want to, not because we feel the need to or are expected to.
At first glance, the writings seem trivial, similar to the notes we would write on the back of postcards before sending them back home from holiday. But like those notes and postcards themselves, they are in fact important reminders of our time and space. Simple and playful phrases, invitations and statements are encouraging and entice us to something fun, while at the same time resembling perhaps something that has already happened, something lost. Their yearning tone fills us both with nostalgia and temptation.
Dear Diary
mixed media on zinc plate, 2023-2025
In the project Dear Diary, the focus is on exploring art as a form of revolution – not one that directly investigates or attempts to solve current socio-political issues or highlights everyday dystopias, but one that returns to the fundamental purpose of human expression. This kind of art does not allow itself to be overrun by despair, anger, or nihilism. Instead, it turns back to its primary aesthetic and expressive function. It is revolutionary precisely because, in a sea of activist works and actions, it distances itself from the weight of injustice and hardship and, despite the prevailing pessimism, dedicates itself to the beautiful, comforting things we must not forget in difficult times.
We can only remain strong if we resist a system that oppresses us and tries to strip away everything we hold dear – be it freedom, peace, love, safety, or hope. One form of resistance is art that embraces joy, carefreeness, pleasure, sensuality, and love – art that refuses to give in to despair. It centers on emotions, memories, and fantasies – elements that are ultimately essential for survival.
The project questions the perception, relationship to, and value of art that foregrounds visual appeal without fully abandoning conceptual depth. The written component is complemented by a personal, expressive visual series made up of recycled graphic metal plates. These are rendered using a mixed-media approach that combines collage, digital graphics, and drawing, visually expressing personal thoughts and memories. Through narrative, they engage with sentimentality and pleasure, advocating – through their lightness – a unique form of resistance.
This series of recycled graphic metal plates – employing a mix of collage, digital illustration, photography, and drawing – intuitively merges pop-cultural references, ironic commentary, personal experiences, thoughts, and memories. The collaged imagery is deliberately manipulated, torn, and crumpled, echoing the look of weathered posters peeling from public surfaces. These works speak for themselves, both visually and conceptually. They represent fragments the artist deems “worth remembering” – functioning as visual thought-diaries that may carry deep meaning in the moment or simply sound or look nice.
The artist is less concerned with what the viewer might perceive or interpret. The act of creation becomes a space for freedom and enjoyment. Through narrative, the works dwell in sentiment, hope, and pleasure, making a case for a gentle, yet radical, form of rebellion. At the same time, the project draws attention to our collective and individual tendency to contextualize and explain things thoroughly. When we fail to do so, we often respond with distrust or dismissiveness – we label the unexplained as lesser.
Why are we drawn to it? Why does it look that way? What is it trying to tell us? Why do we like it? – These are just some of the rhetorical questions we are not meant to answer. Our societal obsession with meaning is leading us toward potential collapse, as we gradually lose the ability to enjoy things that are – at least on the surface – “meaningless.”
Say ahhh
mixed media, print of textile, 2024-2025
www.livelovecalculate.com
webpage, in collaboration with Aleksandar Tendjer, 2024-2025
The garden is an almost obligatory addition for most Slovenian households, but at the same time increasingly inaccessible. Something that was possible for our grandparents and parents is slowly becoming a luxury. More than just a physical place, the garden represents tranquility, shelter, comfort, and beauty, also depending on who we share the garden with, as the connections we make there add to its meaning and value.
However, it isn’t just a beautiful sight, but also a form of rebellion as it is one of the few things left that connects to tradition, nature, meditation, roots etc. In a world that is heading towards complete digitalization and is, step by step, disconnecting us and pulling us apart from our heritage and our “natural space and doing”, e.g. growing and harvesting our own food, the garden essentially provides us with freedom and safe space, a place where you can be with your loved ones in total unity with nature. We were never meant to be as disconnected from nature, or from others as we are now, nor were we ever meant to live life fast without ever slowing down, disregarding our most crucial needs. We return to the traditions of our grandparents and further to our ancestors, that may seem today as unnecessary for our modern lifestyle, but are actually an important part of our life on this Earth. The garden does not provide us with food only, but also tells us about our space - nature, the living beings around us that are part of our ecosystem. We learn about our needs as people and our culture. It offers us a sense of community or a chance to deepen our inner relationship with ourselves, given its meditative state of work, and, of course, helps us appreciate and understand the importance of our food - produce.
livelovecalculate.com celebrates gardening in a deeper and wider sense. It sheds light on the importance of nature and our caring for it in our lives. It's a gate to a dreamscape of something that may await us all in our future - a perfect, peaceful, bright garden that is always welcoming. The garden gives you answers, holds and saves secrets and tells you how to care for it if you ask it. i.e. click around the site. You can find out if your person is the right candidate to grow a garden with & later on lets you create love letters for them.The site acts as a shelter from the outside world, offering hope in times of deep uncertainty and chaos — perhaps false hope. At the same time, it highlights an underlying irony: the viewer dreams of gardens and nature, yet retreats into the safe comfort of the computer, the web, the illusion. But can we really blame them, when the site is so kind to us, always ready with a gentle answer?
Accept this piece of my heart
mixed media on stone, 2023
When I was 10 years old I was so in love with Madonna I cried in bed wishing she was my mother
T-Shirt, 2022
Design, drawings and mixed media works
2020 - 2025
When I was 10 years old I was so in love with Madonna I cried in bed wishing she was my mother
video, 2022
Everything begins with Madonna. The author is remembering her first time seeing the world's superstar in the movie The Next Best Thing (2000), when she was only ten years old. She was mesmerized by her. Madonna has opened a new world of idols to her. With this work she is exploring her relationship with some of her idols that had shaped her and are still inspiring her in her practice today and is placing them in the context of her relationship with Madonna - the first, most innocent and most important one of them all.
Every morning the author walks her dog Zorica. Zorica runs around, while her owner is distracted by daydreaming. The author is so taken over by thinking that she forgets about her dog and the dog runs away.
