The jeans jacket borrowed from friends, 'The Beatles' and sparkling flames of ardour coming from young generation wishing to change this world - that was in the 70-ties. Times are changing and passing by. But the sparkling flames have remained together with gained life experience. And the jeans jacket - that's his own property now, like the sparkling flames that are left now for other young generations.
He's wearing glasses in style of Dandies. He's smoking and making gestures, while telling the witty shortcuts of life stories, which unconsciously make the whole impression of the person he is now. He's telling that English wasn't sufficient to know in his youth, but clothing in 'manner of capitalism' was just a weird way to show the protest against existing dogmas of socialism, expanding horizons, not just seeing everything as a red square or green triangular (it depends how you perceive the conditions of proposed way of living in every political regime).
He's been attracted to art since childhood. He remembers himself drawing everything that was in his daily outlook. And this daily view was pleasant for a young artist to explore his talent and passion for art. The art of nature. The love of nature. The nature that saves and that kills. The nature that is saved and is killed. In many ways. This is his message to society - to save the environment! And show the exact problem through the flowing moves of a paintbrush.
He's blusterous, calling himself 'Narcissist' and why not? He has all rights to do that, as this story is only about his version of this world: through art, inside art and in crossroads of it. Nevertheless, the art is winning this game, even if everything is against it.
His activities can't be described in a few words, it's just like a feeling that can be only understood or not, like art itself. Beside our topic of Graffiti, which is also one of the expression fields of Ljube he makes art workshops (since 1993 in Art Association ZUM93, now ZUM 2002) around Macedonia, with this action letting the society know that nature is dying because of our own non-sense. Maybe painting the dead fish and polluted forests in an impressionistic way is not really helping nature directly, but people buy the paintings, people see the exhibitions and the true feelings of artists and the story every painting keeps inside. Beside the activating art in non-governmental way and saving the nature, he is Professor of Arts, working in a school in Struga and helping young talents to find themselves in the world of creating, despite the fact that art still remains an amateur profession ruled mostly by enthusiasts.
The true child of nature. Maybe he will continue with Ljubeism as kind of new religion, which will take masses to follow him and create the beauty, leaving the messages to the world... 'You may say that I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us and the world will be as one...' [John Lennon 'Imagine']
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