The title of the master's thesis itself suggests a leading concept of the master’s thesis. The memory. “The memory of the river and its faces.” In other words, the memory of my life, of the faces that have left a mark on my life by entering and leaving it, by leaving the indelible traces in me, in my home space, which constantly speak to me on a conscious and subconscious level. I have focused on the memory and what it means to a human being or to me as an artist, to my artistic expression.
I consider memory as something that has passed, yet still resides and arises in my present as a gap that cannot be filled, because I am deeply immersed in it as a fine artist and a poet, who cannot touch her images and poems, because I am their source. I cannot take them off and throw them away, since I am covered in their nudity. In some respects, I consider memory as a ruin, that in some ways shows itself in its voidness, its sometimes invisible yet indelible trace.
This is the subject I have focused most on. The thesis is also focused on the life and the work of Bogdan Borčić, with whom, since I have no explicitly chosen role models in the world of fine arts, I have found most of the parallels, shared life truths and points of view that the was inspired by.
Being a poet myself, along with the reproductions of my graphic works, I have also added some of my poems at the end, which I consider to be the segments that are important for the understanding of my master’s thesis as a whole, of my thoughts and the production of the artworks that are closely intertwined with them, as they synchronously emerge in mutual symbiosis.
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