respect the room — there’s enough for everyone

The house survives the storm. Or is the storm still on? The piece tries to depict the mindset of today, where we have to coexist together with nature and it’s wrath for our crimes from centuries on.

There aren’t that many places on earth where the idea of coexistence is associated with so much contradiction like in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem: here, the Greek Orthodox, the Roman Catholic Church, the Armenian Church meet with the Syrian Orthodox Church, the Ethiopian Orthodox and the Copts – like the pictured monk, kneeling at the Stone of the Anointing. Each church comes with its own rules, its own demands, its own principles about how coexistence should be. Which can get a little messy, so much so that the monks don’t just get uncooperative but sometimes start serious brawls. Indeed, coexistence needs its space (but there’s a light that never goes out 🙂

During these apocalyptic times, we all experienced something we didn’t expect. Many of us lost their jobs. Some of us didn’t go back in their home country and stayed in another place. This could happen again. And probably will. We are stronger together. Let’s build a new world based on mutual understanding, help and tolerance, compassion, togetherness.

The geometric figures represent my interpretation of the word co-exist in how the units complete and complements each other

My submission represents a dreamy, fuzzy vision of a cosmic gathering between two worlds, the world of the apparent light and the world of the apparent darkness, where the light is hiding the dark and the darkness is hiding a glow.

The only possible world is a world in which opposite forces work together for a common goal, following the same path towards the enlightenment.

Enlightenment means mutual respect, compassion, love, understanding, solidarity, collaboration.

We are One.

Did we really need a virus to understand that?

This is camouflage typography of Korean Type ‘살색(skin color)’. I believe skin color is just skin color, it does not give to us any supremacy or does not define someone is inferior race. I thought this idea is gone, even if it still remain somewhere, but it should not appear in front of us anymore. But this idea hiding in our mind and revive again like zombie. It is stronger than corona virus. It scared me.

we sail together these unchartered waters
our four corners entering a singular sphere of being
are we to meet in the middle? to open the close.

this piece is discussing our coexistence on a global level and entertaining the possibilities of this, alluding to opening up something greater when we all move as one.

what we have known may have been shut, but with a close can come a great open. and that is something to be thinking about around now.

Using poetry and a harsh satellite view of the ocean, I chose to articulate the current state of community that I have felt and observed over the past weeks.

How? Together!

The figures in the images represent my geometric visual interpretation of the word co-exist and how each unit complete and complement the other

omnia mutandor, nihil interit

Ovid (43 BC- 17 AD), Metamorphoses, book XV, line 165

Could we live without others? Are we alone if we are locked at home in the middle of a city, with other people locked just like us in the house next to ours? What if the other people is locked, but miles away from us? Are we still connected? Are we still part of the same thing?

Is love about contact? Could we live without contact? Can we show love from a distance?
This is an installation done in my own house during the covid-19 lockdown. Photo by Ana Matos.

What would we like to see us doing in the face of a new situation? What does a new world look like? Are we ready to adapt to whatever comes?
This image is a random pick from over 700 versions generated by a custom typography-altering algorithm.

Were we made to be together? Does society work if we don’t fit with one another? What happens when a social being is left to survive alone?
This image is a handmade linocut print.

life is a continuum… enjoy it!

life is always a question to be answered…

walking together is better!