Working with acrylic paint and wood, Tiffany lets her materials dictate what their fate should be. “I have always had an immense and probably very bizarre admiration for wood. I always felt like I relate to the currents and movements of the grain. When I look at a blank piece of wood, I see something swimming around in the grain already, it isn’t so conscious,” she explains. “I am following something inside me that finds a resolution only after going through a physical transformation by bringing it into existence. This is a slow process for me, I really don’t have any control over it. Whatever it is, it’s much more intelligent than I am.” Bozic says the experience is very intense and that she only “follows the orders” to fully understand what shape these visions will take on.

Having grown up on a farm, Bozic looked for ways to articulate her background in her new urban settings of California. She welcomed the challenge of describing herself “to herself” using “the greatest contradiction I could find.” She does this by using two very separate mediums, “one being very natural like the old barns I grew up with and the other being acrylic which is very unnatural like steel office buildings.” Tiffany found the experience enlightening. “Now I see an airplane is just as much a part of nature as a flying bird,” says Bozic.

Nature and music are Tiffany’s greatest influences. “Bjork and the late Dr. Nina Simone have been a great source of inspiration for me,” says Bozic. “Not only musically, but also in the way they have completely dedicated their lives to passion and freedom for others to soak up. I have many things to live for, but I believe in some ways these artists and many more, gave me a sonic blueprint to create by.”

Not unlike Frida Kahlo, Bozic tries to make sense of complex and personal subject matter such as femininity, life and death. “I have one painting, Open Heart, that I have kept for myself. It was an amazing gift that came to me at a very dark, complicated part of my life,” she says. “A couple years ago, this vision took over me, completely removed me from my perspective, and changed the way I viewed myself and everyone else, with simplicity and compassion.” Another painting, The Offer, was the product of Tiffany’s feelings of guilt and sexuality. “The Offer then became the resting place of those feelings because I realized it was just a part of being a woman, and there is nothing wrong with sensuality, it is one of the most beautiful traits that we possess.”

Tiffany finds great accomplishment every time she picks up her brush. “Along with many of the workers of the arts, I carry this deep seeded instinct or need to communicate my perspective to society,” says Bozic. “I do not think this is necessarily a choice in all people, and it remains within the human condition throughout time. This is just as natural as worker bees pollinating flowers. Most of the time I love being a part of this cycle in nature, and I show my work because it wants to bloom out of other peoples’ hands as well, feeding creation – like homage to life”

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