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May I interest you in a quickest history lesson and just a few words about wine?

I'll start with a cave located in "neighborhood" of my home.

Occupied more or less constantly from the early Neolithic period until the arrival of the Romans, Nakovana Cave has been the subject of archeological interest over the last 15 years.
It can’t be visited because of its sensitivity as an ongoing archeological site, but photographs of the finds at Nakovana are increasingly visible in museums throughout Croatia. The object of most excitement is the ‘Middle Chamber’, discovered by a Canadian-Croatian team in 1999 digging away at what they thought was the end of the cave.
Inside it they found a large stalagmite strongly reminiscent of an erect male organ – together with (a great number of) pottery, plates and votive gifts suggesting it was the centre of a fertility cult in the 4th to 1st centuries BC.

The area was certainly an important one to the Illyrians, who ruled the area prior to being conquered by the Romans. The Grad hillfort, occupying the summit of a nearby outcrop, was an important centre of Illyrian power, and is thought to be a possible power-base of the Illyrian queen Teuta, and a centre of resistance to Roman rule. Even though the cave itself can’t be visited, the largely abandoned village of Nakovana, with its old stone houses and cobbled lanes, is a wonderful place to enjoy a stroll back in time.

Jewellery is one of the oldest types of archaeological artefact – shells, wood and terracotta thought to be the materials of oldest known jewellery.

It was worn as a signifier of some form of affiliation; ethnic, religious or social, to provide talismanic protection, as a carrier or symbol of personal meaning – such as love, mourning, luck...


Think of these as earrings, sculpture or a talisman - the phallus was a symbol of fertility throughout history - and I've made these three months ago, when I was unsure how to start creating again. I hoped they may bring a fruitful harvest of works. My "mantra" is to just work. I don't think inspiration is something that falls from the sky - but things really seemed like being locked in an empty room, with no tools. I haven't laid hands on my materials for so long I felt I forgot to draw. I don't want to ignite a shock factor with these or make a joke - as they don't seem to fit in my feed. Think of this as a talisman.