Ginkgo Story
Why is it a symbol of my brand and why do I love to paint it?
During my studies at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts, I was fascinated by ginkgo trees. I liked to walk at the Kalemegdan Fortress, where there is a whole row of ginkgo trees. I like to draw them and collect the fallen leaves.
Then I read some of my favorite poems, haiku, in which ginkgo was mentioned almost everywhere. And then I met one old grandmother, also a painter, and she adored the ginkgo tree. She gave me all the fallen ginkgo leaves that she had collected for her life (and that is a lot of fallen ginkgo leaves) and told me to keep them. She told me that ginkgo was my sign.
I didn't understand it then, but still, I saved everything from her. And it was in Athens that I began my batik story, followed by my silk and jewelry stories, and each of my works includes a ginkgo leaf.
P.S: I found only one ginkgo tree in Athens, and I go often to visit him.
During my studies at the Belgrade Academy of Fine Arts, I was fascinated by ginkgo trees. I liked to walk at the Kalemegdan Fortress, where there is a whole row of ginkgo trees. I like to draw them and collect the fallen leaves.
Then I read some of my favorite poems, haiku, in which ginkgo was mentioned almost everywhere. And then I met one old grandmother, also a painter, and she adored the ginkgo tree. She gave me all the fallen ginkgo leaves that she had collected for her life (and that is a lot of fallen ginkgo leaves) and told me to keep them. She told me that ginkgo was my sign.
I didn't understand it then, but still, I saved everything from her. And it was in Athens that I began my batik story, followed by my silk and jewelry stories, and each of my works includes a ginkgo leaf.
P.S: I found only one ginkgo tree in Athens, and I go often to visit him.
