Pneuma / Radix Animae

Early Paintings from the SOMA Series

These early works explore bodily presence through gesture, earth, and trace. In Pneuma, black acrylic mixed with soil records spontaneous, physical movement, evoking breath and the vital force that animates matter.

In Radix Animae (Root of the Soul), soil, black acrylic, white traces, and fragments of Bosančica, a historical Bosnian script, form a layered surface through which memories of war, displacement, and loss emerge.

Together, the paintings establish the material and conceptual foundations of SOMA, where the body is not depicted but experienced through the traces it leaves behind.

Radix Animae, 2026
Acrylic and soil on canvas, 48 × 36 in.