Created in collaboration with Jannes Hansen (Text) and Wenzel Ben (Music), “der himmel unter uns” combines multiple layers of poetic expression to tell the story of a multifaceted love. 

LANGUAGE PLAY

Having been lucky to have recieved complete creative freedom besides the prompt of the symbol of birds to represent the characters in the story, I created an alphabet for the visual language and expanded on that. 

The process was associative and non-linear. The figures - almost-birds, almost-humans, almost-letters, undefined. 

UNTEREINANDER

jetzt beieinander
und durcheinander
und miteinander
und aufeinander
und ineinander
und untereinander
und zwischeneinander
bald ohneeinander


© Jannes Hansen, KLAK Verlag

THE PROJECT

In this project, interviews were conducted with six participants about their biographies and their understanding of the concept of intimacy. I have illustrated these and compiled them in a publication - a collective diary.

The series aims to expose a melancholic shadow, a faceless, ageless, genderless being with no clear boundary to it’s expansion or contraction. It molds and stretches to fit it’s surroundings and becomes easily entangled when in contact with others of it’s kind. It craves connection but is also afraid of it, knowing that every touch means being reshaped - either leaving an indentation or turning it into something unrecognisable and abstract.

THE SERIES

This series was created over several years, and the characters that appear in it were used to capture conflicts and emotional experiences related to relationships. It consists of over 300 graphics. You can browse the archive on my Instagram Account

They were published in the the second edition of the DRAFT Magazine in Sofia.

This project was created in collaboration with Franka Geiser and deals with the topics of consent and Desire. 

In conversations with several acquaintances, we noticed that many people often regret having had sex even though they initially consented.

There are many reasons that people give for their yeses. We collect, illustrate and publish these on the Instagram account @end.lessreasons