This body of work did not emerge from an idea, but from memory, a Vinča-inspired philosophy of remembering carried not by the mind, but through the body, breath, and veins.
It is the balance of life residing in the body, in the breath, in the way the hand instinctively finds its path through matter, carrying what the heart already knows. Encountering the Vinča civilization awakened an ancient pulse within me, as if something long present yet muted had finally found its voice again.
Vinča, for me, is not an archaeological fact, but a state of consciousness in which human beings live in balance with nature, the cosmos, and other forms of life. It speaks of a time when life moved in harmony rather than in fracture.
Searching for Balance in Contemporary Life
Today, we search for that state in many ways, through thought and practice, through retreats, therapies, silence, through the longing to hear our own inner rhythm again. We look for it outside ourselves. Yet this memory is already carried within us, not as conscious knowledge, but as an inherited capacity, a deep potential for balance, clarity, and meaning.
The strength of this wisdom lies in its ability to endure. It sustains community, space, and life itself without the need to dominate, choosing instead to harmonize. It knows when to withdraw, when to allow, when to gather.
Within such endurance, there is also responsibility, not as a burden, but as a clear awareness that presence, at the right moment, becomes a true contribution to life.
Endurance, Presence, and the Female Lineage
As a woman, within this memory, I recognize a long lineage of female experience rooted in this land, a strength that was never loud, yet always sustaining. A wisdom that safeguarded life, thresholds, and continuity while the worlds around it kept changing. My inner foundation needed a space of safety to express itself without control, without the need to prove, and without fear.
In the presence of a stable, supportive man, as mentor, friend, and interlocutor, and alongside women who carry the same memory, through exchanges that were truthful and sustaining, that space opened. Within such relationships, my creative process becomes a flow. From that place, these cycles emerged.
In my work, I do not seek to explain what Vinča was. I listen, and I translate that listening into images. Not as testimony of the past, but as a mirror of the present moment. As an invitation to align with the pulse of nature, space, and human presence, to allow closeness, and to remember how life might flow when we let it. That pulse is what I carry forward through these paintings.
This philosophy continues through my paintings and cycles of work, where these principles are translated into material and form.