I took this picture whilst traveling around Auckland, New Zealand during my semester abroad in college (summer 2018) with my 55mm film camera. When I first got my rolls of film developed, I was immediately drawn to this picture. I think this may have been the first time I saw a rollercoaster in the middle of the wilderness. It looked so innocent and clean. It was weird to think that, as, to me: rollercoasters usually went hand in hand with negative connotations (overcrowded spaces, vomit, obesity, germs), but for the first time in my life, I saw humanity holding nature’s hand. .

An age old Japanese proverb roughly translating as “large similarities, small differences”.

We live in a time where people are still discriminated against for the colour of their skin, their culture, or even their religion. Now more than ever at a time of uncertainty, we must remember that we are similar in more ways than we may first realise, and that these differences are something which should be celebrated.

In times of crisis the cards are reshuffled. And some long-waited changes are accelerated. Which they will be has not yet been decided …

As a Christian designer, the ultimate version of looking beyond COVID-19 to a place where we exist together in peace is longing for heaven where all will be made well. This passage in the Bible describes heaven as being where lions and lambs will lie down next to each other. There will be co-existence in the greatest sense, and peace beyond measure!

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To overcome this calamity and this dark moment, we must all coexist and cooperate together in order to fight the monster.
The typefaces (Godiva, Macchia and Lil Thug) used was designed by me.

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To live together, to exist together, to be together, to play together… Our thesis of the “common” seems to be difficult to enforce in a world of competitive turbo-economization including power-obsessed screamers who like to push themselves into the first row with simple pseudo solutions. Altruism in this environment finds at best the pitiful applause. But even in times of rampant fear of aerogenic transmission, despite P3R masks, it remains the same air we breathe. Our existence only seems meaningful when we play in an ensemble and others can experience what we feel – only then do we belong to the humanoid knowledge base and become part of the collective ornament as an ego.

Since the isolations and quarantines, people lack the most ist the human touch. Now that face masks are more and more commandments smiles will not be seen inside stores and roads, too.

This virus ist showing us what we always took for granted to easy. Smiles and touches.

So my idea is that everybody paints a smile on his facemask!

Bring back the smile!

Fashionably construed, through the lens of art, ‘VERONIKA’ analogizes today’s politically charged atmosphere, evident in today’s global society. A reminiscence of an epoch, in which many governments had nearly absolute control over its citizens’ lives, by having stripped away one’s identity and then collectively used to benefit the powers that be, as well as being controlled in ways that most don’t realize.

Concealment of who we are is now in order, yet, a need for a more privy expression and freedom of movement, based on this seemingly prevalent encroachment that could soon (and conceivably already) be in place, like that of the post-war era, which began in the Spring (весна) of 1945.

Moria, Corona bonds, sea rescue — the Corona crisis shows the EU’s limited ability to act. Let’s stand up for those organizations who help and support refugees, sick people and children in need.

we need global home for everyone to feel “in place”, to feel welcome, to be loved, to live… (more in e-mail)

USE, united states of enlightenment (rest in e-mail)

This is a poster with a list of all the countries in the world, with a visual of the earth and a small glass drop in the middle that represents humanity. It shows that we can co-exist, at least on a poster, so there is hope.

Dear Slanted crew,
This is part of a visual art work about tax evasion. I normally work within the documentary field but as tax evasion is a topic that’s hard to capture, though extremely important, I looked at different ways to address the issue.
Especially now in times of crises all flaws of societies are out there, bare. The lack of funding for science, crippling health care systems etc. I believe there is a solution to most of the above: world wide tax agreements that abolish tax heavens and let the rich and multinationals oblige to pay their fair share!
I make work related to tax evasion cause I’m afraid it’ll take, our visually minded society, more imagery before change will happen.

Does it make sense to fight for toilet paper?

Smiling is a universal language that everyone knows and can understand. No matter where they are from or how old they are. Smile unites us all and helps us connect with positive energy, which we really need right now in the current state of the world.

“WE can change the world for the better, only if WE all united and come together”
“WE strong when WE think as one and even stronger when WE love and share as one”.

‘ANXIETY ’TIL INFINITY’ – THE INITIAL SIX’ is a series of 3 artworks acting as a visual essay contextualizing the nuances around the layered states of anxiety. As a type of anti-collage, the works all reference gestures and collateral around anxiety as a subject by bringing together disparate artifacts and visual gestures that create an introspective environment–asserting hints and references that compete for harmony. Artifacts such as the serial numbers and barcodes guiding the compositions are lifted from Xanax packages. Each piece carries the narrative while varying in visual grammar; continuously negotiating the value of time, place, and the internal dialogue overlaying peace with noise.