[spomenik #1] 2021

Ceramic & Photo Collage
27  inches x 12 inches x 12 inches
Created for Belgrade Art Residency

About this Piece
"Spomenik #1" was created during my Belgrade residency. The residency was an opportunity to explore some of my Serbian roots and to take advantage of Belgrade's exceptional contemporary and avantgarde art scene.  

One of the pieces that came out of the residency was my take on the “Three Fists” spomenik (monument). It’s not a direct translation, but is combining a sense of a fist along with pieces cut out to represent the diaspora of Serbs around the world.

I then placed the fired and finished piece among a background of Novi (New) Belgrade apartment buildings / tenements to juxtapose my love for the country combined with common and standard living arrangements  -- in what in American vernacular would be considered "projects."