Since 700 BC, people are coexisting in İstanbul. #coexistanbul

The Physarum polycephalum (also known as blob) is an intelligent slime-mold. It can solve puzzles or memorize things. It communicates and fuses together with other individuals. Together they profit from shared memories, they are faster and bigger. They coexist in peace and profit from each other.

Statistic Seldom Sound Like Songs

Coexist is essential.

Coexist is essential.

Coexist is essential.

Coexist is essential.

Language is at the intersection of culture and diversity. It is fluid, adaptable and ever-evolving. The artwork combines and integrates the letter ‘M’ from multiple languages/scripts coming together as an abstract pictographic mark. It is a visualization of coexistence and flowing together into the River of Language.

The letter M has a strong connection to both water and the universal sound “Ma” (first phonetic made by babies) describing the entity who provides the most cherished love in one’s most vulnerable state. Although the actual words may differ, almost every language recognizes a form of it.

[ Made in collaboration with Minahil Bukhari for the 2020 Indian Summer Festival ]

Characters form words and words make phrases, by then meaning is constructed.
Even though throughout the whole world we use different languages, different alphabets, at this very particular time we are all going through the same experience.
We are all in synchrony.

This drawing of my studio without people took on a different meaning when the lockdown started a few weeks ago. For the past few weeks, I still came to the studio every day while my collaborators were working from home. Instead of looking together at the screen where something was designed, we looked at each other through camera, network and liquid crystals. I was on my own in the studio but not alone; the empty tables a testimony to the mental presence of the others.

In these times, it is more important than ever to realize that the only thing we have to do as humans is to coexist on this beautiful earth if we want to create so.
Everyone and everything on this earth is somehow connected.
But this artwork evinces an even more urgent issue; to realize that we as humans have to coexist with nature and find peace in our roots.
I wanted to demonstrate the absurdity of humanity living against nature, by presenting the human being in the absolute absence of nature, and titling the work with an oxymoron “human concrete”.

Let us be kind and open to each other, we are all in some sort of struggle or pain.
Let us be kind and forgiving to ourselves, healing is a process that takes time.

side by side,
separated by distance,
with face mask,
through plexiglass,
we coexist at the moment –
snapshots with Andrea Gassner, Marcel Bachmann and Christopher Walser – a a g
Fotocredit: Birgite Riedmann

A world unity for all of humanity is the coexist.

I worked with the glyph “&” a symbol of union and connection between two parts, designing a page with six differents “&” for remark the acceptance of the other people.

An experimental series of black and white collages, designed using everyday things and images we use or see. All three abstract collages aim to send a strong message about coexistence through an alternative way, representing feelings closely connected with poverty, climate change, wars, freedom, human rights, etc.

CO[llag]EXIST 3 is an experimental collage created out of abstract lines made out of black markers. All these lines, aim to represent the thoughts as well as the problems, each human has to think and face during his everyday life. In the end, this can be solved with coexistence and mutual support.

An experimental series of black and white collages, designed using everyday things and images we use or see. All three abstract collages aim to send a strong message about coexistence through an alternative way, representing feelings closely connected with poverty, climate change, wars, freedom, human rights, etc.

CO[llag]EXIST 2 is an experimental collage created out of images with sunflowers which symbolize adoration, loyalty, and longevity as well as black spray paint which aims to communicate the message that good is most of the times covered with the bad, something which has to be treated correctly through coexistence.

CO[llag]EXIST 1
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An experimental series of black and white collages, designed using everyday things and images we use or see. All three abstract collages aim to send a strong message about coexistence through an alternative way, representing feelings closely connected with poverty, climate change, wars, freedom, human rights, etc.

CO[llag]EXIST 1 is an experimental collage created out of old Greek newspapers with articles about violence. The various layers as well as the abstract textures offer an interesting dimension to the artwork. Coexistence is the key when it comes to deal with problems such as violence and wars.

Georges Floyd

We are living in a world full of contradictions and inequalities.
A world where the richest 1% own more than half of the world’s wealth, with the other half living on less than $5.50 a day; where every day 10,000 people die because they lack access to affordable healthcare and each year 100 million are forced into extreme poverty due to healthcare costs (OXFAM).
All these inequalities and contradictions undermine the fight against poverty, damaging our economies and societies. We need therefore to rethink our current economic model, in favor of a new humanism, promoting coexistence and equality between people, without distinctions.

Um mit der Isolation in Corona Zeiten klarzukommen, ist es ein guter Weg sich selbst zu Lieben. Durch die Übertreibung der verschlungenen Arme und das Insichgekehrte zeigt diese Figur dass sie Zufrieden in sich ruht.