While I was working on the “Studies”, in a deficit or surplus of concentration, the painting “Martek” was produced, an acrylic on paper, sized 240 × 320 mm. The previously painted red ground had for me an association with the red of Vlado Martek, and further interventions in black and white were a clear dedication to this versatile artist.

After “Martek”, I did a series of forty acrylics, exercising some of my themes. The series “Figures and Double-Faces”(2013) was created as a result of a search for radically synthesised figure that would suggest two opposite, sometimes cognate, objects or concepts, which perhaps would not even be recognised were they not named. I was interested how far it was possible to go in the simplification of figural signs and how widely in the creation of associations that were provoked by two distant words.

(2013; from the book “Pogled iznutra. Čitati s razumijevanjem” / “View from Inside. Close Reading”, Zagreb 2017)