This series brings the female body into dialogue with flowers to explore resilience, vulnerability and emotional intimacy. Through gesture, movement and immersion in natural forms, the images blur the boundary between woman and nature, evoking cycles of growth, entanglement and quiet transformation.
Initiated in 2019 during treatment for breast cancer, the work emerged from a need to reconnect with nature and to engage beauty as a form of healing and survival. Cyanotypes, toned with natural materials such as rose, elderberry and nettle, deepen this connection while also reclaiming fragments of personal cultural memory — plants like nettle and rosehip, which were part of my early life.
Born in the former Yugoslavia and raised in Croatia as a Serbian minority, my relationship to heritage was shaped by erasure — first through the flattening force of communist ideology, and later through the ruptures of war and migration to Canada. What remained was a fragmented lineage, one that only came into focus when confronted with illness.
This work is an ongoing search for an alternative framework of belonging — one rooted in cyclical processes, embodiment and ancestral intuition, outside of patriarchal and political histories and oriented toward healing.