"Wonder in the New World", acrylic on canvas, Bishop Maxim and Radmila Vasiljevic, 2020-2025

This portrait of Serbian nuclear physicist places her between the world she left and the universe she studies. The Golden Gate Bridge and a Balkan-style village meet under a sky alive with celestial bodies, atomic forms, and radiant light, reflecting her life at Berkeley’s Nuclear Engineering Department. A lone boat on shimmering water hints at her journey across continents. The mountains and heavens together evoke the quiet awe that shapes both her scientific work and her sense of the world’s mystery.