A seaside factoid
The piece A Seaside Factoid reflects the artist’s sister’s experience of migration, capturing the emotional tension between longing for a home and building a new life with her partner in the UK. In one of her writings, the sister describes "the impossible dream" through the metaphor of visiting the mountains:
"Immediately after I stepped into my car, I started missing the mountain. Like, there is not much to do there, you know? Obviously, I would get really bored, existentially bored, if I stayed there for much longer. I would miss everything else—galleries, cinema, my friends, the ocean. But the moment I was off the mountain, I thought, return to me my mountain. Like I would never be happy anywhere else. And I would also not be happy in the mountains, long-term. The impossible dream."
For her, Slovenia represents an idealized yet fleeting dream - a place both longed for and impossible to fully return to. This emotional paradox is at the heart of the painting, which visualizes her "impossible dream" of the seaside, imagined together with the artist and their mother.
