not a beginning

not an end

Adriatic sea    
 Ana Buljan   The Tristan Chord

Private archive
unknown years

Astonishingly, in the deep sea there is more life than anywhere else in the world.









Havana, Cuba



Ana Buljan  A dream

Private archive
2025

I dreamt some dreams that were like guides again. They were gentle, 
but they were also an intentional warning.
It was about two people and their relationship, which was romantic,
dynamic and promising, but in the end, it came to nothing.


Atacama desert, Chile


Ana Buljan   Desert tea

Private archive
2018

Rica Rica (Acantholippia deserticola), Tola (Baccharis tola) , Tolilla (Baccharis boliviensis) , Copa Copa (Artemisia copa), Chachacoma (Parastrephia teretiuscula), Airampo (Opuntia soehrensii), Chañar (Geoffroea decorticans),  Pingo Pingo ( Ephedra chilensis)

Before cemeteries, dead people would just be buried in the sand, together with their valuable belongings.  You can still find pieces of broken pots that somehow decided to get out in the sun again. 




Island of Andros, Greece


Ana Buljan   Balance

Private archive
2019

Perhaps this  world is no more; it has ended.
It is here only as a distant  glow of a star exploded, somewhere else and



                                                                        long ago.                           
                                                                                                                                                                                             
Havana, Cuba


Ana Buljan  Soledad hermosa

Private archive
2025










Island of Kaprije, Adriatic sea


Ana Buljan ,  No ball

Private archive
2025

Too many goals with no balls around. 











Andalucia, Spain

Ana Buljan  Marta’s wedding


Private archive
2025




   
Cairo, Egypt
Nairobi, Kenya
Guna Yala, Panama
 

Ana Buljan   Both sides now

Private archive
20222018





Paris, France



Ana Buljan   A vision  

Private archive
2024

The vision is lost. 





Donostia, Spain 



Ana Buljan Many kilometers of  a short friendship  

Private archive
2021

Demolished. 


                                                                                         

Kaprije, Croatia

Ana Buljan  A home of a Captain

Private archive
2025

I know a story about a sailor, a Captain, and his wife, who decided to visit him while he was stationed somewhere in the Sea of Japan. She made a passport and bought a ticket, to get on a plane for the first time in her life. It was also the first time she had left her own island, and the first time she wanted to surprise him like that. On the plane, she was seated next to a woman who, like her, was visiting her loverman. Seven hours into a fifteen-hour flight, they reached for their pictures — and it was only his face.



his face.

























Paris, France
Ana Buljan    Airport hotels  

Private archive
2025

In the most arid places, in this  desert  that seems devoid of life,  all plants will be blessed with medicinal powers. Infused with  warm water, these hard to pick shrubs show a  delicious transformation.



Guanimar, Cuba

Ana Buljan Margroves 

Private archive 
2020

His mother is a fisherwoman, his father a man, rowing a boat made of  plastic water containers.  He is holding a little dead  fish in his hand,  moving it towards me, saying  something  I don’t understand.. I ask him to fly the fish in his opened hand, like in a wave,  and show him the gesture.  And this is what he does,  his back facing the margroves, his movement more gracious than mine.                                                      
It is how this little dead fish in his starfish  palm opened the horizon in front of me.


the horizon






Nairobi, Kenya


Ana Buljan  Voodoo


Private archive
2022

I thought this was voodoo but it wasn’t. It was just an end of the road in a good neighbourhood. 

this was.
 and this is where the Little prince was


San Blas, Panama


Ana Buljan  Factored  

Private archive
2018


It may wrong to say that something ended up in nothing, when we always leave something behind. 



Rotterdam, Netherlands



Ana Buljan 

Private archive  Unfinished note from a finished life
2018

White space, only the WIND as the object of the exhibition in a constructed pathway
is pushing you from the back very strongly up to a





Panteleria, Italy



Ana Buljan  Decoration

Private archive
2019

He told her he was reading a book, the second one since
 he had finished the previous one that morning. 

She then said >> Lucky  books<<  
and he said      >>Lucky  bracelets<<  
She was wearing them.

You can't read the bracelets, she thought. 
You can't wear books on your wrists.



Giarre, Sicily
Ana Buljan  Maybe

Private archive
2019

A ball is  about to end up in a net. 
We don’t see the frame of the net. 
Maybe it’s a cage, maybe the end of that game.  
Maybe is not a meaning. 





Island of Brač, Croatia


Ana Buljan    How to tell them

Private archive 
2017

I’m sorry but I don’t like your hands. 




Havana, Cuba
Ana Buljan 

Private archive
2023

Over the years I alternated between those two animal species, sometimes sharpening my claws, sometimes chasing their tail. 
Sometimes they'd be a little afraid of me and pretend not to look at me, and sometimes they'd throw me a bone. Sometimes they'd even pretend to throw it and hide it behind their backs in order to test my naivety.





Island of Pag, Croatia
Ana Buljan If I could eat you before I break I would

Private archive
2021


                                                                                                                    
the Atacama
As we were lying on our backs waching the night sky,  they told us our existence is already reflected there as in a mirror.  Then,  when we die, we will become stars again.  

I don’t think you are allowed to tell lies in such a place. 



Nairobi, Kenya
Ana Buljan 

Private archive
2022