Overall, Gail and I experimented with working with many forms of media to convey our theme effectively. Doing independent paintings along with our large collaborative painting which shows how different our art styles are which creates a more interesting and abstract painting.

This piece is of significant importance to me. This home belonged to my late Serbian grandfather who used it as a holiday home in Knin, Croatia for him and his brother. They visited every summer to visit family before the start of the Yugoslav war, where Serbs were persecuted and forced from their homes, especially in the Knin district. His house fell into disrepair and he never returned. This house is lost in the landscape and every passing moment it is returning to landscape in its natural form and nature is taking over. This also relates to the Alan Walker music video which has the same concept of a man trying to find his childhood home but only being met with devastation. Even though my father is entitled to the house, he too feels lost as the cost of traveling back to restore his father’s house is too much.