"It's the wind... the wind, only the wind. The sea without it is nothing." says a sailor who has been sailing for more than 50 years. "It's only the wind. You have to know it! You can even smell it! Without it, the sea is just a motionless bowl of water, nothing else." 
Shortly afterwards, a friend tells me that she almost drowned once while swimming in the sea - in absolute calm. In a "dead sea“, as she called it. Wind still. But full of currents. From all directions, always changing. Eddies, wild drunken waters. 
Homer's Epi oinopa ponton has always left interpreters puzzling - what colour is this supposed to be - "wine-coloured sea"? The Greeks did not know "blue" as a colour word. It is not found in any text. As if they distinguished between light and dark rather than shades of colour. One translator speaks of the "dark" sea. Another thinks it's not about colour at all. Actually, oinopa means correctly translated: wine-eyed. So, the sea would be drunk, unpeaceful, dangerous. At the beginning of Ulysses, Stephen Daedalus is taught by one of his fellow roommates to refer to Homer's sea as "snotgreen sea". 
"A new art colour for our Irish poets: snotgreen."
A new, artificially produced colour hits the mark. And the sea is now beginning to smell different too.

Olaf Nicolai

Marijana Pende graduated in sculpture and installation with Professor Roberto Pozzobon and contemporary music with Professor Nicola Cisternino at the Fine Art Academy in Venice in 2008. She was invited to a residency at the Kulturamt Frankfurt in Frankfurt am Main.
She took part in the show Atelier Aperti at the 51st Biennale di Venezia with the best students of fine art academies of Italy, and in several shows such as Classroo#01 at Museo Madre, Naples; Refuses at Arsenale in Venice; Emotion to cohabit, Galleria d’Arte Moderna Palazzo Forti in Verona and Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb; Triennial of Croatian Sculpture, Glyptotheque, Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts, Zagreb (in 2012, 2015, 2018), Marijana Pende exhibited her works at the Gallery Prsten, Croatian Association of Artists in Zagreb and at the Museum of Modern Art of Dubrovnik and 2019 participated in the exhibition Point of Interrupted Departures, together with artists Izvor Pende and Slaven Tolj, which was held during the 58th Venice Biennale in the Pavilion Tesa 100 in the Arsenale,
In the recent period, she took part in exhibitions Art / rat / tranzicija at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka; GOOD TROUBLE / Artists Respond to the 2020 Presidential Election Art Centar WhiteBox New York; 3rd Space Eu/rope project no.1 NMMU Zagreb; Studio Josip Račić 2020; Searching for Identity (at the Time of Selfie) at the Vilnius Academy of Arts, Lithuania 2021.
Pende had solo shows at the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Rijeka in 2016, the Glyptotheque of the Croatian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Zagreb, the Museum of Contemporary Art of Istria in Pula in 2017, Palazzo Costanzi in Trieste in 2018, and the Museum of Fine Art in Split 2019. Her works are parts of museum and private collections. She lives and works in Dubrovnik.