Stipan Tadic
Three Croatians at a Polish Restaurant, 2021
Watercolor and gouache on paper
36 x 26 cm. / 14 x 10 in.
A scene of me and my Croatian friends eating at a Polish restaurant -a comment on the Eastern European diaspora in New York, connected through cuisine, but divided by language....
A scene of me and my Croatian friends eating at a Polish restaurant -a comment on the Eastern European diaspora in New York, connected through cuisine, but divided by language. Here, I used speech bubbles similar to the ones found in medieval paintings (prayers, mostly written in Latin.) In this case, I have written commonly used Polish and Croatian words in the speech bubbles. The painting also has a border with decoration taken from Polish folk patterns.