Graphic Works/Photography (selected projects)
Edgelands
Series of (currently) about 30 intaglio prints in two or three colors on handmade paper, ca. 26x36 cm, 2024–2025
Edgelands is a project in the making focused on the intertwining of human experience with that of other living beings, especially plants, with a special focus on the undergrowth. In combining drawings, intaglio prints and poems, Edgelands embodies landscapes as spaces where worlds meet. The works are created on location, among, amidst, in the thick(et) of plants, and indelibly intertwined with specific places, whose dense life flows into drawings and poems. The multi-colored series of etchings consists of unique pieces – in the printing process, a number of copper plates are spontaneously and freely combined and, by overlapping, grow to form the unpredictable, dense life of the undergrowth.
Nightwood
Photographs printed on fine art paper, suspended on a metal screen frame, ca. 175x140 cm
Emerging from a long period of research on plants used for nature prints, where the printing inks were often obtained from the plants themselves, to produce these works, meadow pieces were covered with glass plates and photographed at sunset. The night life of the meadow is thus caught in a dreamlike state resembling an underwater painting. The plants appear flat under the glass, but they are not harvested, merely touched.
Take Me to the Grove:
Stolisnik/Kadulja/
Dragoljub
Screenprint series with self-made biodegradable screenprinting paste and plant dyes on paper, 100x70 cm, 2022–2024
The screenprint series “Take Me to the Grove”, consisting of 3x6 variations, deals with the realm between form and content, life and visibility, feeling and color, space and place. Prints were made with self-made plant dyes and biodegradable screenprinting paste. The motifs of the triyptych, the leaves of the nasturtium, sage and yarrow, created as monotypes of plant leaves, “move” in 6 variations on the paper – every print is unique.
Losing a Place
Screenprint with self-made biodegradable screenprinting paste and plant dyes on paper, 70x50cm; plant-dyed cloth samples in a wooden frame, 2023
Losing a Place is an attempt to articulate one’s own relationship to a vanishing place in the “words” of the plants growing there. A collage assembled out of photographs depicting a place one is forced to abandon is a portrait of something on the edge of existence. To express this, and include those who make a place what it is – plants – several dye plants collected on location are placed on the stage of the visual as active participants to describe a place with their colors, an expression of their essence.
Petal Prints
Monotype series on paper, 35x24cm, 2022
Petal Prints is a series of monotypes created with the petals of a bush – Thunberg’s meadowsweet –which are freely distributed over the surface of the paper, participate in the printing process and become part of the print.