Year: 2013
Dimensions: 195 x 130 cm
Technique: Oil on canvas
A kiss hangs in the air above the island, suspended between two bodies that lean toward each other across a distance no map can measure. The island waits below, patient as stone, keeping its own counsel.
Above them, fire and water argue in the same breath. A figure of rose and violet reaches forward, holding a shell to the ear of the moment, listening for what the future will sound like. Behind, another body made of cream and light dissolves into the sky’s warm turbulence. Three small green figures hover between the worlds, patient witnesses to a meeting that has happened many times before.
The island below keeps its dark trees and its blue water. Death lives there, quietly, in the garden it has tended for centuries.
Đurović paints the interval—the breath before contact, the instant when two worlds recognize each other and decide what to become.