What if your familiar reality is nothing but a maze of trick mirrors? And what if you yourself are a mere part of this self-interpreting entity, a distorting mirror?
Oddly enough, this project started with me looking for parallels between Nietzsche's eternal recurrence and fractals, but I ended up exploring the idea that truth is impossible. This paper sculpture is symmetrical and consists of two visually identical parts that, as one moves away from the centre, grow less and less similar to one another.
.What if your familiar reality is nothing but a maze of trick mirrors? And what if you yourself are a mere part of this self-interpreting entity, a distorting mirror?
Oddly enough, this project started with me looking for parallels between Nietzsche's eternal recurrence and fractals, but I ended up exploring the idea that truth is impossible. This paper sculpture is symmetrical and consists of two visually identical parts that, as one moves away from the centre, grow less and less similar to one another.
The aim of this artwork was to capture the ultimate state of peace and express the desire to go back to the womb, escaping the senseless cruelty of this world.
This sculpture features a foetus in an egg, which symbolises the safety of the mother's womb—the only place where one is truly at peace as one is not yet self-aware. Hands and faces surrounding the little human represent hardships awaiting them once they have forced their way out of the fragile shell.
In my attempt to capture the essence of this precious stage of life, I used a surgical scalpel and thick white paper. To produce more natural-looking textures, I painted over the cutouts with watercolour and soaked them in PVA glue until they stiffened.
The aim of this artwork was to capture the ultimate state of peace and express the desire to go back to the womb, escaping the senseless cruelty of this world.
This sculpture features a foetus in an egg, which symbolises the safety of the mother's womb—the only place where one is truly at peace as one is not yet self-aware. Hands and faces surrounding the little human represent hardships awaiting them once they have forced their way out of the fragile shell.
In my attempt to capture the essence of this precious stage of life, I used a surgical scalpel and thick white paper. To produce more natural-looking textures, I painted over the cutouts with watercolour and soaked them in PVA glue until they stiffened.
This project required me to pick a certain song or album and create an illustration inspired by it. So I pretended that Schwarzer Engel's song "Der Sturm" was a single and designed a record sleeve for it. My aim was to communicate its solemn atmosphere and portray man's vulnerability to the forces of nature.
This project required me to pick a certain song or album and create an illustration inspired by it. So I pretended that Schwarzer Engel's song "Der Sturm" was a single and designed a record sleeve for it. My aim was to communicate its solemn atmosphere and portray man's vulnerability to the forces of nature.
It just so happens that the vast majority of Steppenwolf book covers feature a wolf, which trivialises Hesse’s idea and reduces Harry Haller’s multifaceted personality to the platitudinous "two souls in one body." The aim of this project was to find out what communicates Hesse’s ideas better than images of werewolves. Apparently, one of the possible solutions to this problem is to create illustrations filled with symbols and allusions so that the reader can recognise something familiar and rely on that piece of information when forming their initial opinion about the book.
It just so happens that the vast majority of Steppenwolf book covers feature a wolf, which trivialises Hesse’s idea and reduces Harry Haller’s multifaceted personality to the platitudinous "two souls in one body." The aim of this project was to find out what communicates Hesse’s idea better than images of werewolves.
Apparently, one of the potential solutions to this problem is to create illustrations filled with symbols and allusions so that the reader can recognise something familiar and rely on that piece of information when forming their initial opinion about the book.