In Whatever Floats Your Boat, the artist explores the coastal landscape as a place of abandoned potential—what could have been a vibrant environment now left untapped and neglected. The central motif of boats stranded on land serves as a metaphor: vessels designed for freedom, immobilized and disconnected from their purpose. This tension between possibility and stagnation mirrors the artist's own conflicted relationship with the coast—a place of childhood nostalgia now viewed through a lens of disillusionment.
From "Karkoli Pluje Tvojo Barko" show / Svetilnik, Piran / 2021
The project is deeply personal, rooted in the artist's grandfather's stories of boatbuilding. Through family archives and conversations in grandfather's workshop, the work traces the fate of these handmade boats—some sold, some lost to time, others never launched.
From "Karkoli Pluje Tvojo Barko" show / Galerija Luke Koper, Koper / 2024
Parallel to this runs a reflection on the coast itself—once idealized as paradise, now seen with clearer, more critical eyes. The artist grapples with a love-hate relationship to this landscape, where memories of childhood freedom clash with the reality of neglect.