Milena is a former Yugoslavia-born Canadian visual artist working primarily in watercolor to explore memory, identity, and embodiment. Shaped by migration, cultural displacement, and the rupture of war, her work reflects the tension of growing up between Eastern European heritage and Western influence, searching for continuity across languages, places, and bodies. In a medium associated with control and delicacy, she disrupts expectations through scale, palette, and gesture. Often painting from memory and life rather than photographs, she privileges felt experience over fidelity. Her practice is grounded in her higher education in psychology, Japanese language and culture, and fashion design, and further shaped by years of independent study, mentorships, and experimental engagement with material.