Communication Through Herbs, 2012.

Location | SC Gallery-Zagreb, 2012.

Nature, the countryside and everything built around a certain locality is its surrounding. When I moved away from the tall buildings and skyscrapers to the east side of the city, where family houses dominated, I have found myself in completely new surroundings. After a while I wanted to conceive my own way of communication with the new ambience and the people living in it. I’ve noticed that in front of every front door there is a small well-decorated garden. Motivated by it, I’ve started to plant herbs and flowers on my balcony. I have raised the pots from the ground and wrapped them into colorful fabrics so that people passing by could easily notice them. When the seeds started to grow I have also started writing interesting pieces of information about the plants in chalk on the street. For example: “Coriander has sprouted. Tea from its seeds has medicinal properties. I am still waiting for rosemary, thyme and basil to shoot up.” Children were the first to notice my activity on the street, some of them joining me, drawing in colored chalk further down the street. The highlight of the action was when the plants had grown enough for me to replant them in the new pots, leaving them in front of every neighbors door.