Communication these days is running via Zoom, Skype, Webex or Instagram. I miss real face to face conversations. Coexisting side by side and not together sucks.

Step back to zero and think about how we can work together for a slightly better future of coexistence. Times of elbow society should be over. Charity and solidarity are more important than ever before. We need each other, so team up!

Feelings coexist. Sometimes nice, sometimes ice. Diffuse, ambivalent, fragile and changing within seconds.

The human race fights against themselves, today we must understand around us

Putting together a map of the Ringrastaße in Wien with some of its buildings and some graphs and data about the contemporary migration in Austria, the poster aims at questioning what’s the meaning of monument nowadays. Epitaphs, palaces, cathedrals and equestrian statues were erected in the past in order to assert an identity. Nowadays, in a time where everything get counted and measured, statistic deserves the role to delineate identity. In a post-monarchical and post-ecclesiastical, where power doesn’t (or at least shouldn’t) belong to a single person or restricted group but should rather be held by to the whole population, identity is not an imposition anymore but rather a deduction.

HISTORY IS ALWAYS HAPPENING

As an exercise in word play and text management within a predefined grid systems,
I created an eight column by eleven row grid prior to formulating any textual content.
I had only a vague idea of both the message I wanted to impart and the designs overall aesthetic quality. Mentally roaming around the English lexicon I ran into 16 words that complied with the grid system and formed a simple message that pertains to our current global state of affairs as well as our future efforts to coexist with one another.

WE ARE NOW
INVOLVED
IN A TRULY
HISTORIC
ENDEAVOR
THAT WILL
DEFINE US

PLEASE BE
CREATIVE

An exploration of human bodies that are co-existing to form type.

How we see ourselves and how we are seen by society is all blurry in these days of a pandemic.
We are the hope for one and a threat to another.
Our vision for the future is blurred.
The ‘big’ picture is blurred.
Life as we know it no longer exists.
Our values and habits are getting different than before.
If nothing will remain the same, how can we coexist the same?
We must change.
We must invent a new way of living. Now!
How is it going to be? It is up to us.

Visual experimentation about the harmonious cohabitation between individuals or between communities.

Coexisting means collaborating, if we don’t work together we won’t be able to overcome the challenges we are up against as a society. The message on the poster is the classic motto ‘United We Stand, Divided We Fall’ but only ‘Divided We Fall’ stands because the first part of the sentence ‘United We Stand’ has collapsed, showing the fragility of the concept of Unity.

The world is changing and we have to react to it – now!

«We can’t save the world by playing the rules, because the rules have to be changed. Everything needs to change — and it has to start today!» Greta Thunberg

We need to stop exhausting the planet!

Today, holding a little longer has become a daily struggle, the only and most important. By way of claim. Letters with a strong expression, with a spirit of resistance, of unity, where perfection is left aside, and only the message matters in its most primitive state. Alive!

As a totalizer, I want to encapsulate everything I am feeling, thinking, reading, archiving, etc., into what I am creating. I want democratization of language, validation of other forms of inquiry and knowledge. I want interspecies collaboration. I want to convey to the deepest feelings that connect us all. Us as in you, me, the living organisms within this universe, the decaying leaf, the book collecting dust, the portals that take you to other worlds, the things you cannot explain.

PANGEA ULTIMA; to be able to coexist we have to work together and become one.