Acrylic on canvas, stretched and ready to hang.

Signed on the back.

'Mala Kuća' is inspired by writings from September 2021, reminiscing time spent with family at Naval Base Shacks, WA. Mala Kuća (pronounced mah-lah koo-cha) translates to 'small house' in Croatian.

As I sat outside under a big tree, I reminisced of the smells that would waft from the shack. Meat on the coals, smoke and ocean air. I could hear the trees swaying, the bangs of the outside kitchen, words in Croatian. I feel the slow afternoons napping under the trees on those sticky plastic mattresses after swims and full bellies. I could hear Baba and Dida bickering and see them playing Bocce. I am longing to return to see Mala Kuca, the little house. The blue, little house. It's been blue all along.