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Crossing Series begins with a personal journey of discovery. In 2010, I returned for the first time to the ancestral homeland of my family in Southeastern Herzegovina, in what is now Bosnia and Herzegovina and was formerly Yugoslavia. The journey brought me into contact with familiar communities and a way of life that seemed untouched by time, yet deeply marked by conflict and violent demographic shifts. Crossing Series reflects, through an allegorical lens, on this encounter and on the shifting relationships between place, memory, and belonging.

Depictions of unspecified topographies, developed through additive and subtractive stone lithography, became the foundation for a series of short animated films that, in turn, informed the lithographs. I sculpted aluminum-foil models of icebergs, Yugoslav architecture, and Brutalist monuments—including the monument at Sutjeska that inspired Test Stone with a Rock Study III (Distant View after H. Seghers)—and then scanned, drew, etched, printed, and filmed them. The animations subsequently became source material for new drawings, beginning the process again.

Moving between sculpture, drawing, printmaking, and animation, Crossing Series explores the nature of composite narrative, in which visual signifiers—both real and invented—intersect to form images that suggest displacement, transformation, and revival. In this process, scale and representation remain fluid, allowing unfamiliar forms to become almost tactile while the familiar provides a handhold on reality. Through these shifts, new visual narratives emerge in which memory, place, and imagination continually cross paths.