Did you ever come across an artwork that looked beautifully ornamental, symbolic and emotionally charged, but somehow uncanny in that ‘woo-woo’ sense? Symbolism and folklore that were embedded in the culture we grew up in give our artworks a sense of depth that goes beyond aesthetics.
These elements carry inherited meaning and ancestral knowledge. They activate memory, ritual and emotion – even when viewer can’t explain why. As a Slovene I’m close to Slavic folklore in particular, which is rooted in cycles of nature, labour and liminal states of life/death, so its visual language feels primal and bodily.
