“De Belijdenis”
From the series “La clé du boudoir”
It doesn’t matter what we believe. What matters is that we are all human beings aiming for love and beauty.

“Roos op mijn schouder”
From the series “Histoire de l’oeil”
The emotional value of hugging eachother is only estimable on the day that we are not able or allowed to.

“Boezemvriend”
From the series “La clé du boudoir”
The emotional value of hugging eachother is only estimable on the day that we are not able or allowed to.

No title
Commissioned by P-Magazine
The emotional value of hugging eachother is only estimable on the day that we are not able or allowed to.

Play on the representation of two heads, therefore two different minds, sharing the same body. Literal coexistence.

Koexistenz beschreibt das gleichzeitige Vorhandensein verschiedener Systeme.

Verstanden wird darunter oft das friedliche, aber unabhängige Nebeneinander zweier oder mehrerer Dinge.

Wikipedia 2020

We must reimagine how to use technology in our daily lives. The COVID-19 crisis has demonstrated that it‘s impossible to ignore technological advancements as they are continuing to change business models and people’s everyday lives.

It remains to be seen what political and economic impact COVID-19 will have, but it will certainly reshape behavior of people, businesses and governments.

The COVID-19 crisis reveals great inequalities between poor and rich. It is time to bring an end to inequality and overcome poverty for good.

Ambivalence occurs when there is a coexistence of opposing experiences and emotions that creates uncertainty.This is a list of antonyms – connotations to the actual COVID-19 crisis – symbolizing the uncertainty and ambivalence regarding the very quickly and very unpredictably changes that took place since the coronavirus outbreak. This Ambivalence will likely linger on for the foreseeable future.

Text: Reference to the Philosophy of Coexistence by Bertrand Russell.
Image: Translating in a literal and non-abstract way the idea of coexistence through the usage bubbles/circles, playing with negative and positive space.

Applying the concept of coexistence to the call for submissions. A poster that gathers together 100 interpretations of coexistence, shares their similarities, celebrates their differences and, ultimately, makes them coexist.

My take on “Coexist” was the visual representation of the fact that everything in this world seems to be interconnected. There is a delicate and vulnerable balance between humans and nature that must be kept and preserved. I visualized this principle by using and reinterpreting a quote from the song “The Air That I Breathe” by The Hollies, and visualized it using the system of Fractals, a pattern that reoccurs in our bodies’ anatomy, in nature, and in mathematics and geometrical patterns. To me, to coexist means to understand the symbiosis of technology as a product from humans as a product from nature and how the three influence each other. To coexist means to respect nature.

The artworks investigate about what coexisting means nowadays and how our lives are impacted by COVID-19 spread.

Coexisting now means a transformation of our habits, a proper metamorphosis of our lifestyle. Our ability of adaptation and making space for the others – both metaphorically and physically – is key. During this pandemic people are called to mutate their routines, while the perception of life and expectations about the future and totally confused uncertain. Everything is different from what we expected: this pandemic is pushing us to evolve, helping others and the environment around us more than ever, in a completely different way from how we expected.

“We are each a microcosm; if each of our individual worlds is in balance, the whole planet is in balance.”
– Greg Reitman

The image of rocks in a perfect balance comes from the idea of our relationship with nature in order to coexist in the future. The rock in itself is a symbol of strength and resistance, and it’s used by humans to build houses, where we feel safe. Rocks in nature are different from each others in shape and weight, like everything else in this world, like humans. But nature, unlike our society, does not make any discrimination. Even thought they are so different, with patient and dedication, they can coexist in a perfect balance.

[ rock balancing by Andrea Simoncini ]

At first, it was an enoki’s shape (japanese mushroom ), and that made me think about parents and child, or strong with weak, the idea of protection.

A music note, which could be extended by togetherness power.

The hashtag is an interesting glyph : a real symbol of digital society, but also a crossed shape. I see it as a symbol of together life.