Living together in peace, at the same time, in the same place. You don’t have to go far for this, just step out of your apartment door: Living in Lichtenberg in Berlin means to live in the largest Vietnamese community in Germany. Knowing the history of your neighborhood helps to understand the present and to shape the future in a positive way. Look behind walls and don’t let new ones appear in your mind. Go out.

Photography: Wall of the building from the association Reistrommel e.V. . The association is committed to the rights of the Vietnamese community in Berlin.

Coexist is not only about humans. We are surrounded by a diversity of species, living and unliving, that are entwined in beautiful and unexpected ways. While the ecological philosophy refers to the idea that everything is connected to everything, Donna J. Haraway highlights the relevance of specificity and proximity of those connections, and how these unexpected collaborations reflect on our stories and lives as beings. In that sense, she refers to the game of string figures as a metaphor, a game “of relaying connections that matter, of telling stories in hand upon hand, digit upon digit, attachment upon attachment site, to craft conditions for finite flourishing on terra, on earth”.

In the chaos, we must build our balance,
our balance holds thanks to our difference.
In the difference we find our complementarity,
complementarity is essential to co-exist.

This idea behind this poster stems from Gil Scott-Heron’s iconic song “The revolution will not be televised”. It calls people to take an active part in building a common progressive future by breaking the cycles that keep us in the past.

When true faith meets harm done by the church, you get this pictorial condition of religion today.

Coexisting means breaking the so called “bubble of ego” that each of us has. We’re trying to surround ourselves with the symbols of success distancing our lives from the lives of those who struggle. But to peacefully coexist we need to break from this idea, reach to each other and learn to listen. This illustration is about the power of listening.

Since Covid-19 and the start of the semi lockdown in Germany I have spent more uninterrupted time with my children as ever before. After a difficult start I settled into the new lifestyle of domesticity and eventually started photographing my children. I had time to observe the ever changing emotions between them, the ebb and flow of love and hate and all feelings in between. Tied together by fate, the sibling relationship can be anything from close to distant, but it surely never is insignificant for other relationships later in life. I look at it as playful experiment for learning how to get along with people. Brotherhood and sisterhood are the very nucleus of any social skill.

An honest approach to spread love instead of hate. Every connection we make to other human beings ranges on a scale that goes from the deepest possible love over apathy to the strongest forms of hate and condemnation. In this context my work wants to exaggerate the established claim “spread love not hate”.

coexist, a word, a feeling, we indirectly say to ourselves everyday. We thrive and hope for it to happen. For us humans it is challenging. However, some other living organisms are just born with this blessing of being able to just camouflage, to simply, coexist.

Exist together, in peace, at the same time, at the same place at these strange and crazy times seems like a common challenge for all of us. We may all be stuck inside, but we can still give a smile to each other to keep optimism and joy. From there I decided to draw an apartment with windows which created using word “together”. Giving positivity to each other and staying together while staying at distance this is what all we need at these crazy times!

The work focus its meaning on the dot, a dot as a person who lives happy and peacefully with the others, no matters if it is white or black. A dot that alone would mean nothing.
The earth is just a “little dot” the least we can do is to be happy of what we already have and help to each other no matter what.

I chose to upload two different versions of the same idea.
The version 01 is full of “dot faces” living in the same place like the original claim says and I think it is cool how you can focus only on staring at them or trying to read the word coexist. The cleaner version (02), it is less explicit but it can work with the claim I chose, that is another definition of the word coexist.

This artwork was inspired by the M Scott Peck quote “Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.” For me it perfectly sums up successfully coexisting. The typeface used is a WIP typeface of mine and I think with the big contrasts in the letterforms, it is a nod towards the two meanings in the quote.

This artwork was inspired by the M Scott Peck quote “Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.” For me it perfectly sums up successfully coexisting. The typeface used is a WIP typeface of mine and I think with the big contrasts in the letterforms, it is a nod towards the two meanings in the quote.

This artwork was inspired by the M Scott Peck quote “Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.” For me it perfectly sums up successfully coexisting. the snake of shapes is a visual representation of the sentence, hence why it follows the same movement and the shapes represent the meanings throughout the sentence.

This artwork was inspired by the M Scott Peck quote “Share our similarities, celebrate our differences.” For me it perfectly sums up successfully coexisting. the snake of shapes is a visual representation of the sentence, hence why it follows the same movement and the shapes represent the meanings throughout the sentence.

As we spin our way through a global pandemic and now the long overlooked problem of systematic racism in our lives. Whether we know it or not we have contributed in someway.
To coexist is defined as living together in a peaceful manner, but let’s not let peaceful coexistence mask indifference.
You can’t be scared of your own ignorance when it comes to failing to understand the daily existence of someone different to yourself (sexuality, gender, race, age, the list goes on) You must use that fear to fuel your education, your actions and ultimately how you affect others around you.
I would suggest that you cannot coexist and be peaceful without acknowledging together what makes us who we are

The “Coexistence” series is an invitation to awaken consciences for the creation of a world pervaded and protected by equality.

The theme of the first poster is the vital concept of gender equality, while in the second – created after the recent global events and coherently with the spirit of the “Black Lives Matter” movement – is the urgent need to create a society in which people are always treated fairly, regardless of the color of their skin, eradicating all types of racism and discrimination.

The ear is the most efficient and, at the same time, the most sensitive sensory organ of human beings.

Our perception of the world is strongly influenced by visual stimuli, and that’s why we often underestimate the role of our ears.

In difficult times like this we often don’t know how to act. In my opinion it is essential to listen to those who have a strong voice but often are overheard.

These paintings reflect if the digital age and its ways and possibilities of communication brought us closer together in the end, or just increased the quantity of communication units.
They show two wolves, physically separated but linked through a copper wire. The idea was to have a diptych, which could be hung in two different places, but still stays connected.
The wolf is a recurring character in our works, an antropomorphism to examine human behavior in our late modern society. The shades work, similar like the screens we are communicating through, as a barrier that gives the sender the feeling of security while the recipient is hardly able to decode all the informations.

“Icarus has become better-known as the flyer who fell from the sky when the wax that joined his wings was melted by the heat of the sun.”
As fascinating and useful the progress of human civilization is, it might be dangerous as well. “Over-Progressing” may become the cause of our annihilation, like the story of Icarus; who flew so high that the sun melted the wax in his wing.
The sentence written in the artwork is a quote from E. O. Wilson, an American biologist, naturalist, and writer; refering to the myth of Icarus.

Communication towers, Inseparable parts of our civilization. The Connectors. Constantly present in the landscapes of our cities. Communication Ambassadors.