Description: The primary motivation for my project was to process my experiences during a semester in Split. In my paintings I portrayed a world that I could not have told in any other ways but through pictoral expression. During my studies in Croatia, I found paraphrases while exploring how people relate to the nature around them. I saw scenes in real life that could be interpreted as paraphrases of a particular historical pre-image or topos, such as Caspar David Friedrich’s The Wanderer over the Sea of Fog, or the iconographic type of the "Three Graces", etc. As reality twists the original meaning of these works, it points to the type of man analysed by José Ortega y Gasset in his book The Revolt of the Masses, the „Mass man”. A type of man who is simply exists, but is rootless. Therefore he has no past and no future, and is drifting through an empty present. One of the elements of my series is the transformation of Caspar David Friderich's painting Wanderer above the Sea of Fog. In the painting the depicted attitude in relation to nature of the new mass man is completely changed. While the portrayed protagonist by the German Romantic painter is able to perceive and confront the grandeur of nature and to feel its majesty. In contrast, the new character is not only unable to experience this state, but even „spits” on this theme by his act. The question arises as to whether the deep connection to nature that Friedrich portrayed in his Romantic paintings can even be expected from a modern man. The active dialogue between the „found paraphrases” and the works of the great masters also mockingly highlights the social and cultural problems that the mass man can cause. It is also put into context with the environmental issues that affect us all. It raises the question of what will this type of man, who is not only disconnected from his cultural past but also from nature, do about the pressing environmental issues of the future. Will he be willing to give up his own comfort to stop climate catastrophe?