The cycle “Paper and Scissors” (see Jacques Derrida) originated in the procedure of the collaged construction and deconstruction of my own works. From it, in a different technique (oil on canvas), the “Analogue Structures” developed in which, by a reduction of linguistic communication (letters and words), a pictorial minimalism of form was emphasised: poverty, simplification, monochrome language.
(2023; from manuscript)
In the “Analogue Structures” exhibition in the casemate Ružić Gallery of Slavonski Brod fortress, I drew an analogy between the two cities: my own medieval and Mediterranean Dubrovnik and their flatland version, located by a border, at the intersection of important trade routes and water courses. Both built for the defence of the territory and the population impressive defensive structures, simplified details of the ground plans of which I letter-painted. These forms/figures exist on the cusp of the collective unconscious: as archetypal symbols and the rationally conscious: architectural elements. I endeavoured to give the monochromes suitable titles, covering with the names of them areas of physics (“Refraction”), of geophysics (“Rotation”), geometry (“Angle”), astronomy (“Full Moon”), religion and mythology (“Non-Babylonian Tower”), defensive architecture (“Citadel”), military gear (“Shield”), the linguistic (all the works), the grammatical (“Articles”) and the phonetic (“D”).
(2021; from an interview in DuList, Dubrovnik, December 21, 2022)