oKo

Much more rational....

2011-09-14T06:57:00.000-07:00

We have not yet gone far enough in space.
There had been ships on the Atlantic for a good time before America was discovered.

Zagreb's Street Art Museum

2011-09-14T06:47:00.000-07:00

One of the first results of such an effort is to bring your picture of yourself down to something nearer life-size. And presently you begin to wonder whether you are yet, in any full sense, a person at all: whether you are entitled to call yourself "I" .

One's ordinary self is, then, a mere facade. There's a huge area out of sight behind it.

http://www.muu.com.hr/

How Not to Be a Fool ?!

2011-08-29T16:34:00.000-07:00

What the wise seek is in themselves, what the fool seeks is in others.
Confucius

The Death of Trust

2011-08-29T16:29:00.000-07:00

Gaia was the great mother of all.
Gaia is sometimes thought to embody the planets and the Earth, and sometimes thought to embody the entire universe.
In some Gaia theory approaches the Earth itself is viewed as an organism with self-regulatory functions.

Dissociative identity disorder

2011-08-29T16:25:00.000-07:00

Dissociative identity disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis and describes a condition in which a person displays multiple distinct identities or personalities (known as alter egos or alters), each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment.
Hypnotists reported what they thought were second personalities emerging during hypnosis and wondered how two minds could coexist.

Searching for justice

2011-08-29T16:20:00.000-07:00

Lawyers back in town, searching for justice...
Some theorists, such as the classical Greeks and Romans, conceive of justice as a virtue—a property of people, and only derivatively of their actions and the institutions they create.

Home Made collaborate with OKO

2011-08-16T02:27:00.000-07:00

OKO, one of the Croatia finest street artists supported Home Made Electronica with cover for new release by Nenad Todic – Jazz Dolly EP. So far feedback on release is great and his deep tech house drives floors crazy from Chicago to China.

http://homemadeelectronica.com/blog/?p=94

Lawyers

2011-07-22T09:08:00.000-07:00

Legal advice is the application of abstract principles of law to the concrete facts of the client's case in order to advise the client about what they should do next.

He who is slowest in making a promise is most faithful in its performance.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

2nd Urban Art Awards - The ARTAQ AWARDS

2011-06-29T07:50:00.000-07:00

Artaq, 1st International Urban Arts Competition
Every year Artaq identifies the most representative artists in the evolution of Urban Arts and contributes to their influence.

Identtity-plus someone else.

2011-06-25T03:43:00.000-07:00

The synthetic identity of the rock star is the quickest to produce because its signal is forced to operate at a speed closest to the rate of the environments mutation.

Avoid Fields. Jump Fences.

2011-06-23T10:48:00.000-07:00

were looking for people who:
-read books
-dont see a clear distinction between work and play

You could win a job, and not just any job!!! The Holy One :D

nice company :D

2011-03-29T14:27:00.000-07:00

http://www.artaq.eu/en/nomines2011.html
:D

Maybe too much painting in a row???

2011-02-12T07:30:00.001-08:00

i just cant stop sometimes <3
i get really painful blister on my finger now to remain me to stop sometimes!!!

new interview INZINE

2011-02-01T14:02:00.000-08:00

inzine

In our first in a series of exclusive interviews we had talked with OKO. Although I am convinced that she does not need any special introduction, for all those who don’t know, OKO is one of the most famous street artists in our region.

Why OKO (OKO=eye in Croatian)?
Eye that sees everything, inner eye, Gods Eye, there is a lot of variants, closest to me is the eye that we carry inside, eye with which we emotionally see things and situations.

Why street-art as form of expression?
Because it allows an absolute and complete freedom, there is some connection between me and the energy this city feeds me with. Every city is different, Zagreb is my home, and because of it with him I have best conversation

For how long are you present at street scene?
I think, for about three years, although is difficult to define … I have started leaving things on street in different periods, but almost constant in last three years.

Street vs. gallery, what do you prefer?
Always has been, and always will be the street. Gallery is something where you developing some concept, story and you have to define it from beginning till the end with curators. Street is, at least for me something what gives you immeasurable consolation, gives me power, like best friend which will always be there to cover your stupid things and watch your back. There is something unbelievable when at evening you walking alone and gluing thing along the city, adrenalin, silence, thinking, sometimes you lose feeling what is reality, and what is your imagination. All this is what constantly makes me go out.

Where are you getting inspiration for all those works?
Thinking, constant thoughts that floats thought my head, sometimes they just fly through, sometimes they fade in eternity, sometimes they become text, and sometimes they catch the chance and become drawing (which in themselves contain the entire sentence, which in most cases only I can understand).

How much time do you approximately spend on work?
Couple of hours … because all posters are hand drawn with brush on really thin paper, sometimes it lasts and for few hours, but with time all this process has become a lot faster. People often think that all my works are prints, but that is not so, everything is hand drawn – because for me, this is form of meditation and then I most clearly hear my thoughts … when the hand follow the lines, thoughts get wild

For how long can one creation survive on the street?
Couple of times it happened that somebody rip off my work or completely strip it of in just one hour, but some works are still there after three years, which is wonderful to me, time has started to bite them, they are washed out from sun rays, the background is become rusted – they are somehow coalesced with environment.

Which is yours favorite technique, and why?
Hand drawing on thin paper, I’m using acryl because is resistant to environmental conditions and fast drying, and brushes … my favorite are, the thinnest, which are used for models, because they leave thin and precise trail, so besides that final work looks like print, whole process is meditating.

Why women and birds as most common motive?
Women were concept of beauty and femininity through history, and birds – birds are symbols of freedom, something so pure …. Once I read that birds are carriers of souls after dead, that sentence thrilled me.

For planB you talked about project “city as confessional”, do you have any other project which you would like to highlight?
City a confessional was emerged in part of my life when I was passing through one emotional crisis. And when the person is so alone and week loses complete power, feeling for solitude, get lonely… People are like animals and when they going through hard times they go away from everything, and seclude, at least I do that. There is something that makes you weak vulnerable and you need somebody on who you can count on, in my case there was the city. Somebody who won’t take advantage of my feelings, and make me feel vulnerable. Then I wrote all my weaknesses on papers, and placed them in medical test tubes… and as such I started living them through city, so that somebody else knows what I’m going through, and I’m still not feeling vulnerable.
Last project I had worked is again result of one emotional moment, because I currently don’t have residential address and my ID is complete absurd, the only way to feel my “roots” was that I leave it through the city by myself. I copied some motives of my tattoos and stick them across the Zagreb. By this I was creating home for myself, and sense of belonging and security…. Every one of this tattoos have special meaning for me, which does, and should not be understandable to wider audience. It was important for me for a moment to feel the stability of residence, so as usual I turned back to street.

Did you have any close encounters with law enforcement, how did ended?
I did and they were merciful. Everything went OK, probably one need to be persuasive and charming so that things settle down

What are you doing when you’re not creating street-art?
Painting and drawing …. The only thing that matters is that hand fallows coordination of thoughts.

In last few years street-art has started developing, how are you satisfied with current situation?
Definitive king of this climate is group Puma 34, there is nothing to add, except that they deserve interview for them self. They get covered everything in city and wider areas. They are definitive model for me. Filjio as pioneer has leaved enormous influence on all people who want to deal with similar themes.

identity card-im without home address and only identity for me is street, thats my home

2011-01-19T13:20:00.000-08:00

The Seal was an item of major importance in old civilizations, they are marks of power and of authority. A Seal has a force of a signature, they authenticate private or public contracts, and become symbol of secrecy.
God marks individuals with his seal showing thereby that they belong to him and are under his protection. Tattooing symbols of identification and is interfused with all their magic and mystic potency. Identification always carries a double meaning it tends to invest the individual concerned with the properties and strenght of the creature or thing to which that person is assimilated and, at the same time, to immunize the letter against its potential power to cause harm.

In the last few months I was forced to move for a couple of times.
I have changed 5 different apartments in last 5 months.
It was scary and painful in a way, because I had to collect all of my stuff, my whole life and throw it away.
I felt like a snail: I went from having a big snail house to loosing it.
On certain levels it was liberating, it was just me against the whole world, there were no material things that I could use as a shield...
The only thing that I was left with was my ability to survive and to see what I was made of.
Quite a test, I can tell you.
Because I feel like I have no the roots connecting me to the place where I grew up, I am taking parts of me, my tattoos, and putting them in the streets, making them mine in a way, turning the whole city into my home and my shield.

Les Misérables

2011-01-15T10:06:00.001-08:00

Everybody gets so much information all day long that they lose their common sense.
Gertrude Stein

saint

2011-01-12T01:09:00.001-08:00

A saint is always someone through whom we catch a glimpse of what God is like -- and of what we are called to be.

Plan B Magazine - Interview

2011-01-11T02:18:00.000-08:00

Angry panda

2010-10-30T11:25:00.000-07:00

Today angry panda went to hackney wick to meet his little french friend Maude, and she made lovely food and was very lovely as always ♥

...And he made some new friends ... the street rats :D

...And now im a happy panda.

hackney wick/london

For all the football fans

2010-10-29T10:39:00.000-07:00

Building of The Football Association, 25 Soho Square/London

That best portion of a good man's life,
His little, nameless, unremembered acts of kindness and of love.
William Wordsworth

Rebellion attitude

2010-10-28T07:49:00.001-07:00

London squat-Islington & Highbury

Doubt is not a pleasant condition, but certainty is absurd.
Voltaire

Sun Creature

2010-09-29T17:09:00.001-07:00

There is something in his mind ..... that makes me so much stronger

Guardian of Great Silence

2010-08-30T07:37:00.001-07:00

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
Publilius Syrus

We Are Seven

2010-08-16T15:03:00.001-07:00

We Are Seven

A simple Child,
That lightly draws its breath,
And feels its life in every limb,
What should it know of death?

I met a little cottage Girl:
She was eight years old, she said;
Her hair was thick with many a curl
That clustered round her head.

She had a rustic, woodland air,
And she was wildly clad:
Her eyes were fair, and very fair;
-- Her beauty made me glad.

Sisters and brothers, little Maid,
How many may you be?
How many? Seven in all, she said,
And wondering looked at me.

And where are they? I pray you tell.
She answered, Seven are we;
And two of us at Conway dwell,
And two are gone to sea.

Two of us in the church-yard lie,
My sister and my brother;
And, in the church-yard cottage, I
Dwell near them with my mother.

You say that two at Conway dwell,
And two are gone to sea,
Yet ye are seven! -- I pray you tell,
Sweet Maid, how this may be.

Then did the little Maid reply,
Seven boys and girls are we;
Two of us in the church-yard lie,
Beneath the church-yard tree.

You run about, my little Maid,
Your limbs they are alive;
If two are in the church-yard laid,
Then ye are only five.

Their graves are green, they may be seen,
The little Maid replied,
"Twelve steps or more from my mother's door,
And they are side by side.

"My stockings there I often knit,
My kerchief there I hem;
And there upon the ground I sit,
And sing a song to them.

"And often after sunset, Sir,
When it is light and fair,
I take my little porringer,
And eat my supper there.

"The first that died was sister Jane;
In bed she moaning lay,
Till God released her of her pain;
And then she went away.

"So in the churchyard she was laid;
And, when the grass was dry,
Together round her grave we played,
My brother John and I.

And when the ground was white with snow,
And I could run and slide,
My brother John was forced to go,
And he lies by her side.

How many are you then, said I,
If they two are in heaven?
Quick was the little Maid's reply,
O Master! we are seven.

But they are dead; those two are dead!
Their spirits are in heaven!
'Twas throwing words away; for still
The little Maid would have her will,
And said, Nay, we are seven!

William Wordsworth

All My Fears

2010-07-20T17:54:00.000-07:00

Little monsters in my head called FEARS

Stay up late

2010-07-15T15:35:00.000-07:00

Stay up late. Strange things happen when you've gone too far, been up too long, worked too hard, and you're separated from the rest of the world.

Monster's from my neighborhood

2010-07-13T11:56:00.000-07:00

Some of the Monster's from my neighborhood, sometimes I meet them in the hall and they are not always friendly or pleasant!
But actually I think they are just shy. :D

The Captain of the Great Ferry

2010-07-09T07:13:00.001-07:00

We were in Mali Losinj ... We become captains of the great ferry,and found many deserted islands, saw many of the sea monsters, and we almost found the treasure chest under the sea, but no one could dive deep enough.

Academic success

2010-06-25T11:13:00.000-07:00

Life opportunities are more closely related to degree results than ever before. Coupled with that, children are being examined more than ever before. This loses sight of exams being an indicator of how you are progressing and becomes rather like conntinually pulling up plant to se how well it is growing.

ZAREZ - new cover

2010-06-11T05:51:00.000-07:00

Zarez is a Croatian biweekly newsprint magazine covering literature, arts, culture and current affairs.
Zarez was established in 1999 after a group of intellectuals decided to break away from the government-favored cultural magazine Vijenac because of differences of editorial policies proscribed by Matica hrvatska, the publisher of Vijenac, and the views of the editorial staff. They formed a company called Druga strana (The other side) and started a new, independent, cultural magazine first published on 19 February 1999.Even though it is widely considered to be one of the best cultural publications in Croatia, it always struggled to secure its finances because of low circulations of culture-oriented publications in Croatia. It is currently financed by various grants, mainly from the Croatian ministry of culture and the Open Society Institute.

horror story by JOHN CROAT and OKO

2010-05-23T08:05:00.000-07:00

hand painted/ acrylic on wood panels

Saints

2010-04-08T10:14:00.001-07:00

Saints are individuals of exceptional holiness

When a Monster Is Born

Imaginary friend

2010-03-30T17:18:00.000-07:00

Imaginary friend: a non-physical friend created by a child. It may be seen as bad behavior or even taboo (some religious parents even consider their child to be possessed by an evil spirit), but is most commonly regarded as harmless, typical childhood behavior. The friend may or may not be human, and commonly serves a protective purpose.

Bird Woman-with great mind

2010-03-26T10:37:00.000-07:00

Great minds discuss ideas; Average minds discuss events; Small minds discuss people.
Eleanor Roosevelt

Cognitive focus

2010-02-22T12:14:00.000-08:00

We have only one active center of attention at any given moment, a single cognitive focus, and we move it around as our environment demands or allows. Evolved over millions of years, this center of attention is the input jack for our nervous systems
fight-or-flight program. Locked in the present, it provides our experience of now, of reality, and even, some would say, of being.
Our cognitive focus provides safety: it is perpetually scanning the horizon for even the slightest change in the environment that might pose a threat. Most of the new economy revolves around the manipulation of attention - or more accurately, our center of cognitive attention.

The Trinity

2010-01-28T05:48:00.000-08:00

the unity of the Godhead there are Three Persons, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit... How to double the Power???

the best company

2010-01-18T10:26:00.000-08:00

Faces of your subconsciousness is sometimes the best company you can get

Confession

2010-01-13T10:13:00.000-08:00

There is something incredible liberating wan you decide to write on a piece of paper bad things that you felt in your life , and wan you decide that same piece of paper left hidden somewhere on the streets, that it can be found from a random stranger.
Something so intimate and ugly, something about you that your are so ashamed that you even couldn't say that loud .
Protected by the anonymity you are willing to share with complete strangers most intimate part of yourself, which creates a connection between you and the world in some strange mystical way , and you even dont feel unnecessarily weakened or put in their state of mercy.
I left in a couple of test tubes most of my shame or evil thoughts, making that way random stranger who finds it mine liberator.
In that way the whole city became mine big confession place.

Immortals

2009-12-22T03:22:00.000-08:00

Immortals from oko on Vimeo.

Immortals take on the shapes of birds to signify their lightness and their freedom from terrestrial heaviness.
Since ancient times, because of the Birds connection to the sky, they have been thought of as a supernatural link between the heavens and the earth.
Sometimes I think which bird would I be?

some old stuff

2009-12-18T08:24:00.001-08:00

Sometimes drawing and painting strict geometric shapes give such inner peace and a sense of control

exhibition

2009-11-25T18:15:00.001-08:00

some of the merchandise
OKO - Dead Prophets
PROSTOR, Mesnicka 5, Zagreb
30.11.2009 - 19h

new stickers in town

2009-11-10T09:05:00.000-08:00

:) Adventures of Huckleberry Finn

I'm stubborn as hell

2009-11-07T14:27:00.000-08:00

Sadness is something so big and lonely

Family - how do you dodge a bullet?

2009-10-31T08:17:00.001-07:00

If a turtle doesn't have a shell is it homeless???

Silence

2009-09-18T08:57:00.000-07:00

Tradition holds that there was silence before the Creation and that there will be silence at the end of the world. Great events are clothed in silence but hidden under dumbness.The former endows things with greatness and majesty, the latter devalues and degrades them.

Father

2009-09-18T08:49:00.000-07:00

Father is symbol of procreation, ownership, domination and courage.
He stands for all figures of authority in education, employment, the armed forces, the low, and for God himself....
I have no father, does that make me free???

Preservation of my own character

2009-08-31T05:54:00.000-07:00

What now might have been my conduct it is difficult to say.
The pitiable condition of my dupe had thrown an air of embarrassed gloom over all.

Omnipotence

2009-08-21T09:25:00.001-07:00

The creatures cause pain by being born, and live by inflicting pain, and in pain they mostly die.

intellect

2009-07-10T15:06:00.000-07:00

Immortals take on the shapes of birds to signify their lightness and their freedom from terrestrial heaviness.

Without money or expectations

2009-07-03T02:35:00.000-07:00

acrylic on canvas

Who tried to seek revenge through others or have had serious problems in their youth regret their actions and try to make amends, suggesting that the events in a person's life may be consuming to the point of destruction, and that one's actions are irreversible and irrevocable.

Social beings

2009-07-03T02:33:00.000-07:00

acrylic on canvas

Self concept or self identity may be informed by how a person understands how others perceive them. Gender Identity does not refer to the placing of a person into one of the categories male or female; but without including the concept of interaction with society at large the term has no meaning. We are social beings.

Ghosts

2009-07-02T04:10:00.000-07:00

tuzla, exhibition "opusteno"

Traditional ghosts in popular culture are being replaced!!!

Identity

2009-07-02T04:05:00.000-07:00

puma 34 and oko, tuzla, exhibition "opusteno"

Identity is an increasingly challenging problem because of the corrosive effect of technological developments and media-saturation on peoples attention.

all roads lead to Rome

2009-06-23T16:32:00.001-07:00

Forte Prenestino

The pictures look the way they look, but their associations and insinuations lend mystery.

Another self-portrait

2009-06-14T10:07:00.000-07:00

coloured neon lights that flash the world.

What we perceive to be reality

2009-06-14T10:02:00.000-07:00

puma34 and oko
I am only asking questions

celebrity

2009-06-11T10:22:00.000-07:00

puma34 and oko

Celebrity is the knife that cuts all of human history into fifteen-minutes slices.
It is the price you pay for being part of the future.

intimately linked to social discoveries

2009-06-11T10:18:00.000-07:00

People forged new visions of the world and needed to express them.
The connection between social and formal innovation could not be ignored.

The studio

2009-06-11T10:10:00.000-07:00

The studio is not an isolated, discrete object.
It is an organic system with machine parts, it is a space partly fixed, partly fluid, willing to engage fluctuations and disturbances.
The studio function as a transformation loop.

Listen carefully

2009-06-04T09:19:00.000-07:00

Every collaborator who enters our orbit brings with him or her a world more strange and complex than any we could ever hope to imagine. By listening to the subtlety of theirs needs, desires or ambitions, we fold their world onto our own.
Neither party will ever be the same.

weekend warriors

2009-06-01T12:51:00.000-07:00

puma 34 and oko

Some of us have been on this road for so long we've actually fooled ourselves into thinking that we know where we are going. Sure it helps to know all those familiar but ultimately faceless landmarks, but in the end, were all just following the same blind instincts. Our best hope is to never find what were looking for.

grasp of the world

2009-05-04T16:14:00.000-07:00

I am interested in the worlds external appearance, in its tactile surface, and I keep an exact portrayal of the world in mind.

virgin mary

2009-05-04T16:10:00.000-07:00

What happens is always so far ahead of us, that we can never catch up with it and know its true appearance.

Art is mans creation, yet words and pictures are also the form of his language

2009-04-20T12:05:00.000-07:00

If art is not primary communication but, creation, then posters, with their prescribed function of advertising and propaganda, would seem to be only a secondary art form. Yet posters, in the first hundread years of their existance, have also had a curious relationship with painting.

puma34 and oko

we are on the wrong road

2009-03-25T16:55:00.000-07:00

I want to make it quite clear that what we find out on our own steam is something that gives us a shock.

For all of my Gentlemen

2009-03-23T15:33:00.000-07:00

It is not neat, not obvious, not what you expect. Yes im a tramp!

art is a form of self-help

2009-03-20T08:34:00.000-07:00

split concept is a key component of the enlightenment world view and structures the way we think about ourselves and the world.

under the effect of the rising pollution

2009-03-08T18:21:00.000-07:00

We may, indeed, be shure that perfect chastity - like perfect charity - will not be attained by any merely human efforts.

oko, lunar, puma34

experience to share the same space

2009-03-08T05:06:00.000-07:00

If you think you are not conceited, it means you are very conceited indeed.

ninja tigar, pekmezmed, py, puma34 and oko

right now

2009-02-11T04:45:00.000-08:00

I wont to go further inside, deep inside. And im taking the outside with me, im taking it all with me...

bold colors and a sure hand

2009-01-30T13:34:00.000-08:00

Does it not make a great difference wheather I am, so to speak, landlord of my own mind and body, or only a tenant, responsible to the real landlord?

linocut and drawings

photo by jaka babnik

a society that witnessed its failure

2009-01-30T13:31:00.001-08:00

But this is near the stage where the road passes over the rim of our world. No ones eyes can see very far beyond that: lots of peoples eyes can see further than mine.

not all experiments were successful

2009-01-27T04:04:00.000-08:00

A man who gives in to temptation after five minutes simply does not know what it would have been like an hour later.

no line or outline

2009-01-21T05:44:00.000-08:00

There are luminous dots, abstract figures made up of little dots on an opaque background.

generally remains

2009-01-07T04:39:00.000-08:00

They were like porcelain dolls hidden from everyday view

ny09

2009-01-02T08:33:00.000-08:00

shared experience with other people.
Its beautiful,at least I think so and I believe what I want to believe.

conflict

2009-01-02T07:45:00.000-08:00

between traditional and modern ways.
I like being in control and I like losing control.
Obedience to a ritual is a way of making rules
and then letting yourself go along with them.

i have high expectations of him

2008-12-27T14:23:00.000-08:00

I guess - that was a good enough reason for the game to go on.

linocut

the only signs of their presence here

2008-12-26T17:39:00.000-08:00

And that illusion is constantly exciting.
linocut

do not follow the white rat

2008-12-21T12:57:00.000-08:00

I try to transform reality with its own rules.

not a single detail

2008-12-19T13:30:00.000-08:00

its kinda weird
why would it be bad luck
i dont want to use it
oh, so out of respect
like a waiting room
a waiting room?

what do you know? how do i know i listend to it...

if you want a rainbow

2008-12-07T16:21:00.001-08:00

you gotta put up with the rain

job needs to be done

2008-12-06T06:02:00.001-08:00

so merry xmas y"all

homework

2008-11-20T17:28:00.000-08:00

To receive the maximum benefit from a work of art, you must contribute as well.

puma34-py-oko

2008-11-16T11:41:00.000-08:00

A more sophisticatedd approach to the direct method of making quotations from the real world than direct method of creating a realistic image.

sk8 decks

2008-11-09T05:35:00.000-08:00

For every portrait fundamentally represents a single captured moment.

py-oko-puma34

2008-10-25T14:26:00.000-07:00

a tragic mistake

2008-10-15T14:32:00.000-07:00

My shadowing continues...

strictly prohibits use

2008-10-12T13:11:00.000-07:00

this method is basic, easy and relaxing

2008-10-09T09:29:00.000-07:00

a more careful examination

2008-10-08T10:21:00.000-07:00

whose operation is this?

2008-09-26T06:03:00.000-07:00

i dont know, someone got killed here, maybe.

with the ...PUMA 34

2008-09-21T14:05:00.001-07:00

12 smiles given, 6 received

2008-09-17T04:52:00.000-07:00

that must be love

2008-09-07T15:29:00.001-07:00

i slip through the streets

2008-09-06T11:25:00.000-07:00

I become the owners of the grave

2008-08-04T06:44:00.000-07:00

habit of making compliments

2008-08-04T00:49:00.000-07:00

Get a life you stupid bitch.

2008-08-03T16:11:00.000-07:00

lost and found

2008-07-29T09:46:00.000-07:00