“I would say that my dream would be… to have a vehicle fitted out and to go around the world

and draw people,” says Nedzad Ajkic (46), a French and Bosnian artist living in Paris. Born in France, at age 10 he moved to Yugoslavia with his family. When he was 17 they returned to France, fleeing the Yugoslav Wars. “We sensed the tension that was coming. Political divisions, the first conflicts of people between themselves.” Leaving was “very, very complicated. I remember, after 50 km, a bunch of guys stopped the bus we were leaving in to get to Zagreb and pulled us all out… I remember they traumatized me a little.” Nedzad feels guilty that he left. “I suddenly left everything and then, from afar, I heard how it all ended, they are all at the front, there is the other who died, the other he’s missing two arms…” He has faced other challenges, too, but, “whatever the period of my life, drawing has always accompanied me to overcome these difficulties.” Full Story