Based on an examination of our DNA, any two human beings are 99.9 percent identical. The genetic differences between different groups of human beings are similarly minute.

Based on these facts, the world seems like a big puzzle.
And it is our exercise to find the parts, which fitting together. Of course, it is a visionary picture of our future to get all parts together, but still we are asked to bring them together as much as possible. Coexistence seems to start in smaller groups, but we should not forget the bigger picture.
Sometimes parts are fitting immediately, sometimes it takes more time.

At the end, it all fits.

Stay home! – I wish I can.
Heard in a refugee camp in Lebanon.

In the future, Matthew 19:19 should be replaced by this then it could be the coexist solution for humanity.

“EXCHANGE” is an installation of words, pictures and sounds, exhibited in Utsunomiya Museum of Art (Japan) in 2017.

Words – in the form of large prints – write about humans’ engagement in “exchanging” since our birth, including the exchange of emotions, materials, information and locations;

Pictures contain 4 graphically processed portraits dissembled in certain orders;

Sounds of clapping hands similar to that of a music concert, repeats becoming unified and scattered.

Coexist of human beings enhances exchange of mutual values, yet there are also times of compromise, balancing and accommodation. Through this artwork, I viewed at the matter of “exchange” as a behavior with costs.

Act beyond convenience
Unite against hate
Rise above ego
Cultivate awareness
and see with eyes unclouded.

An image, a vision or a projection showing a constructed mental landscape which is possible, but has not appeared yet or has not been written into a natural or, for that matter, urban environment, into the outer world, is in every instance a suggestion for new models, landscape depictions previously unknown and unseen. With them, the operation of the “new imagination” can become perceptible, i.e. the method for creating what is simultaneously topical and ideal, what we can call art. This new kind of description of our world and ourselves using a new type of image is also the transformation of the relationship between “us” and the “world”. This image is the mystery of the possible landscapes.

A hand holds a bunch of grapes gently on a fine stem. If you look more closely you see that the berries have faces. This community of fate is held together by a central structure that supports each individual grape, which in turn depends on the holding human hand.

selfexplaining (hopefully), otherwise: it is easy to judge others, but heavily summarized you are a piece of hypocritically shit yourself, so change, pack an, older.

Why can’t we just do that?

Some says it’s an ability,
some says it’s an action.

All we need is empathy.

Let’s. Stop. Alienation.

Why can’t we just do that?

To understand and accept each other as Earth beings is to transcend the limitation of languages, that is to embrace the living commonalities we share with fellow humans as well as non-humans. The way we use life around us defines the way life will eventually treat us. Regimes of abuse must be countered with ones of acceptance.

We still need to learn how to coexist and we’ve got to entangle ourselves in each other again and again and again.

Racism must stop. #blacklivesmatter

Not only can our language be traced back to our collective roots, it is still the trunk of our society.

We are all: We share a common land, we follow the same law and we belong to the same demographic groups. We are one: We have our own agendas, our own value system and beliefs. We are alone: Is there still enough common ground for our society to function?

While the media is mainly focused on COVID-19 the living conditions in the refugees camp getting worse. In our homes we deal with the emotional difficulties of physical distancing while in Moria there is no possibility to keep distance to one and another. People are still suffering on Lesbos, we can´t even imagine. The idea of the Europeon Union is failing during this time.

I’ve heard a lot of people say they want things to return back to normal. I don’t think we should return to the old ways. There is so much more we have to fight for than the pandemic. We have to create new structures and systems.
We have to create more “equal rooms” to shape better future for our society and fight against the climate crisis, poverty and racism. We have to reshape our future and escape from old patterns and structures. We as designers should use our power to support those issues and create a visual awareness.
Those could be for example: Equal room of opportunity, equal room of hope, equal room of communication, equal room of empathy, equal room of safety…

My typographic posters show the transformation from egotism, which is to be distinguished from egoism, to coexistence, which needs a society that thinks collectively and expands peacefully into the future and which does not try to put only individual interests of single people in the foreground. It sometimes requires a change of the state of conscience. Here this is suggested by shifting letters, which gradually change from the term EGOTISM to COEXIST. The single letters contain both glyphs united in a three-dimensional form that changes by turning.

For this artwork I concentrated on the decision between the topic “coexistence” and the consequences of not being able to coexist.
Because in the end, that’s all it really is: a decision. A change in everyone’s mindset, that can lead to a more peaceful life for everyone. It doesn’t cost much to go through life with more thoughtfulness. On the other hand, if everyone keeps on caring just for themselves without the necessary consideration or hindsight, what will follow is the “co-exit”. At this point we realise that we didn’t do our homework, but we are too far gone to make changes now.
I really hope for the outcome A, but honestly I feel like outcome B is more likely to happen.