I am an artist with an environmental background. I have always created, but my studies taught me what to look at.
I got here by failing a biology class.
I was a creative kid who wrote books in her spare time. When an unplanned exam caught a group of us off guard, I failed. The teacher offered us all a chance to fix our grade by entering into a biology competition. Of our group, I was the only one who made it to the national level. As I sat at the exam hall of the biotechnical faculty, the dean greeted us with "welcome to the best minds in biology and our future students". I laughed that I was only there because I had failed a class! But as serious competitors shot me their annoyed glances, it dawned on me... I will be back, won’t I?
Next year I enrolled as a landscape architecture student.
Landscape architecture gave me two things: lectures on ecology that shaped my worldview of interconnection, and the discipline of drawing plans by hand — where everything on the page holds meaning and nothing is purely decorative. I use this framework for my own creative expression.
I developed a relationship with every place I lived in and every language I lived within. I was brought up between the Alps and the Mediterranean, but spent my twenties abroad. My studies eventually brought me to Berlin, where I lived for close to a decade. I've since returned to the landscape I grew up in and am based in Bled, Slovenia.