Growing up in Croatia and Serbia, where mosaic artworks are often featured in homes and urban environments, I admired how their myriad individual pieces, each with its own beauty and identity, come together to create a complex yet unified whole. Becoming a mosaic artist was the natural evolution of my love both for this art form and for the endless variety of shapes, colors, textures and forms in the natural world. I am also a licensed landscape architect with a Master’s Degree in landscape architecture and have lived and worked in Alaska, New Mexico, and now Florida. I was drawn to those states by their unique and stunning plant species and landscapes. As in my landscape architecture, my mosaics reflect my delight in nature and its infinite variety and beauty—and for people, in all their intriguing variety as well. While assembling mosaics, I explore life in its magnificence, beauty, complexity, ambivalence and mystery. The complexity of a mosaic piece is mesmerizing, while at the same time simple and subtle. In our lives, we can experience a million disparate emotions, encounters and insights until one day we suddenly see the overarching big picture—and mosaic art, for me, is the perfect medium to represent this. I savor the process of breaking material and assembling it in a new way. My works range from a 300-square-foot piece inspired by an Albuquerque home’s mountain views to smaller realistic portraits and depictions of animals to abstract creations that express the brilliance and joy of nature. In addition to being featured in art shows in cities including New York and Chicago. I’ve had a solo exhibition in New Mexico and create commissioned works for clients across the country. Name was inspired by “million pieces of mosaic and first four letters of my last name.