The purpose of my project is to save Memories of victims of war.

My project is focus on personal feelings about war, when I lived in the former Yugoslavia at the time of the Balkan wars. It pushed me to thinking about the relationship between war and human behaviour, especially the resulting cruelty, barbarism and savagery.

I saw murdered and mutilated children and savagely defiled bodies – I still see them, as these are things that I can never fully leave behind.

I feel constantly drawn to the theme of war in my art.  It is a form of therapy to describe the feelings and experiences in my studio work, a purification of memory. The victims of war’s barbarity are always before me, and I want to draw attention to the victims.  I am painfully fascinated by the inhumanity I’ve witnessed, how human beings who are capable of so much good, can be dragged down to vicious and evil brutality by war, how humans become inhuman.   My studio work is also very close to my Thesis idea where I wonder about the purpose and value of art in the face of war.