Nikolina’s art & writing practice emerge as a breathing monument to war-torn roots in the Balkan borderlands and as a reflection on the currents of surviving nomadically and in diaspora. She cultivates a palimpsestic approach by combining elements of digital painting, abstract texture exploration and traditional portrait drawing to honor the processes of memory recollection and continual, sensual, fragmentary becoming. The process often relies on a piecing-together of folkloric and mythological elements to form contemporary approximations of ancestral relics/love’s memento mori, so as to articulate what it means to exist as a particular brand of queer, displaced entity.