The author of models and photos was born in 1953, in the village called Zabalj near the River Tisa. Today he lives in town Novi Sad on the Danube riverbank. Both rivers are in wide Panonian lowland (long ago the Panonian Sea). The mouth of Tisa in Danube forms an angle where (from ancient times) the People, very skilled in navigation on rivers, live. They are very good in making riverboats and ships called "sajka", where the name for the complete region comes from (Sajkaska). This is where the author's fascination with water and ships comes from.
The author is engaged in model-ship-writhing since 1978. (unfortunately with a long pause). Until today he made more than 20 different models and (2-3) series (in total nearly 40 ship models inserted in the Bottles).
Since that Time he has exhibited his works in few galleries, other attractive spaces in Novi Sad and on the Adriatic sea shore as well as at the International Fair of Hunting, Sport and Tourism in Nov Sad, and 36. World championship in table-tennis in competition for souvenir of the Novi Sad town and region Vojvodina (The northern part of Serbia).

In 1997 he had a very interesting project:
"Little - ship in bottle school" for pupils from one Novi Sad primary school, as a part of a manifestation "Children's Week" (witch "Vojvodina's Children's Friends" organize). On the finishing performance both the children and the author put the ships in bottles, showing the pupils from other schools how that is done.
At the same time the author exhibited his earlier models...

In 1988 the author took part in the World Exhibition EXPO `98 in Lisabon, Portugal. The exhibition was dedicated to all kinds of waters, the seas and oceans. On this occasion he exhibited three ships of his own (see EXPO `98).

In the 1999 the author took part in the Exhibition Novi Sad `99 which was organized by the ship modelers of Novi Sad. All kinds of media gave great consideration to this exhibition and there were many newspaper articles and TV-reports on the state TV programmes as well as on the local ones (see NOVI SAD `99).

A short story about the sea-gall from The Danube...

Once while I was taking my early morning walk along the quay, I found an almost frozen sea-gall somewhere between Old Bridge and the buttress of the bridge that was pulled down in the Second World War. It was lying with its wings stuck against the concrete wall. Somehow, with great effort I managed to set it apart from the wall using my keys.

17th January `98 (St. Sava Day) ... after a short nursing time I released it by the Danube, near the place where I had found it (by the buttresses of the pulled down bridge). It rose in the air energetically toward the Danube, and then it suddenly changed its direction and making a big curve it came back and flew above my head, then it joined the flock that was circling above the buttresses.

The next year during almost three months of bombing all three bridges in Novi Sad were pulled down.

15th September `99 � The Danube was spanned by a bridge again! This time it was the pontoon bridge that was constructed between the ruins of Old Bridge and buttresses of the bridge pulled down in the Second World War, the bridge that stood exactly at the same place where I had found the sea-gall the year before.