Oblak (Cloud): Sacrifice of Zuleikha

Four-panel woodcut from 2022. "Oblak" is the South Slavic word for cloud, paired here with an episode from the Joseph narrative as told in the Quran's Surah Yusuf, where Zuleikha — Potiphar's wife in the Hebrew Bible tradition — is reframed in Islamic exegesis as a figure ultimately of repentance and devotion. The choice of subject reflects Poskovic's interest in religious narratives that traverse Abrahamic traditions, drawing on Islamic, Jewish, and Christian sources across his catalogue. The four-panel format permits a quartered or banded composition that may fragment the narrative scene across the panels. The cloud noun-title functions atmospherically rather than literally, locating the sacrifice within an ambiguous or transcendent register. Large-scale religious woodcuts of this kind demand sustained block carving and careful color sequencing across each matrix, with gradient passages and overprinting building the layered surface characteristic of his practice. The pairing of South Slavic noun titling with Islamic narrative content reflects Poskovic's diasporic position between Bosnian heritage and the broader Abrahamic literary world.