Escape Landscapes

Escape Landscapes emerged as a continuation of the research that began with my series Other Worlds. Using the same simple elements - water, pigment, and light - I create transient landscapes that exist only for a brief moment before dissolving. What remains is not a record of a process, but a trace of an experience.

These photographs are places I escape to from everyday worries and expected forms of reality. They are landscapes without geography, shaped by intuition, rhythm, and chance. Within them, time slows down, perception softens, and the need for meaning gives way to a sense of freedom. The act of creation itself becomes a quiet wandering - an escape from the weight of everyday life toward a space of openness and the free flow of ideas.

Although abstract, these landscapes do not arise from an abstraction of the external world, but from an inner landscape that reflects my emotions, thoughts, and states of mind. Meaning remains unstable, inviting the viewer to bring their own memories and emotions into the images.

For me, Escape Landscapes is a form of visual meditation - a search for inner calm and for spaces freed from the constraints of everyday life. The photographs invite the viewer to surrender to a sense of wonder and reflection, and to find their own way into imaginary landscapes beyond fixed boundaries and definitions.
YEAR
The project was created between 2017 and 2019.
EXHIBITIONS
2025
Escape Landscapes, FER Gallery, University of Zagreb Faculty of Electrical Engineering and Computing, Zagreb, Croatia

2022

Escape Landscapes, GMV Herzer Palace, Varaždin, Croatia
Escape Landscapes, Nikola Tesla Technical Museum, Zagreb, Croatia
Escape Landscapes, Koprivnica City Museum, Koprivnica, Croatia
Escape Landscapes, Virovitica City Museum, Pejačević Castle, Croatia
Curator: Draženka Jalšić Ernečić
AWARDS
2019
14th Julia Margaret Cameron Award
- Honorable Mention, Abstract Category, Professional Section, for the series
FEATURE
VIDEO