“Madhouse Reality, Final Version”—The world is a madhouse, and it is a world turned upside down—one where the insane…

One glaring example of massive food waste—and our own decadence—is the all-you-can-eat buffet…

“Little Peter’s Moon Journey (Codename Artemis III)”—more than 100 years later. The original German fairy tale is becoming reality…

“Pump Modern Colonization” represents history repeating itself. Karl Marx once said that history always repeats itself twice…

“New ICEland – Land of the Unfree” – where ICEland has nothing in common with the Scandinavian island except for the name…

G-sus left white Birmingham, Alabama—a city in the American Bible Belt that still hasn’t overcome its old Southern mentality,…

Fire (and pyrotechnics)—something that has always fascinated humanity, and far from always in a positive sense…

Seeing, perceiving, experiencing, producing, reproducing, using color—it’s an extraordinarily complex affair that we typically…

In this (art) world, Delacroix and Banksy collide. “Banksyliation” takes as its starting point an entirely plausible “alternative”…

At first glance, one might associate this with George Orwell’s “Animal Farm” or Da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” perhaps also with …

This work emerged from my intellectual engagement with appropriation art, the question of the absolute original, and, in this context, the role of art criticism.

“Minestrone” — nothing more than an Italian vegetable soup, or the idea of life as a mixture of different experiences, feelings, and challenges, or simply…

When we see a picture of an artichoke or see one in real life, we immediately think of the word “artichoke.” When we hear or see the term “artichoke,” we simultaneously have an image…

A POEster about a writer who still has not been forgotten after 200 years, along with his works— “POEtica” is a tribute to a highly intelligent, eloquent (if sober) writer who was one of…

There’s something of Goethe’s Sorcerer’s Apprentice about it—I truly can’t get rid of “the spirits I have summoned.” That’s exactly what happened when the smartphone entered my life.

“Cringe” focuses on the youth language that passes most of us by, but at least once a year reaches those who are no longer young, when the youth word of the year is announced.

State of Qatarsis”—the work commemorates the migrant workers who died during the construction of stadiums for the 2022 World Cup in Qatar. It also draws attention to the existence…

Franchising replicates business models, promising entrepreneurial independence while simultaneously …

Slowly but surely, night gives way to dawn. As darkness shifts through dawn’s first light to the orange-red glow of daybreak, the ray knows it’s time to end its journey through the sky and return…

“OO”—the Olympus of the Oligarchs: Mount Olympus has evolved from a mountain into a collection of skyscrapers. Today’s tech billionaires have established their headquarters…

“A Bodhisattva Called Waldo”—Waldo sits in meditation before a graffiti-covered wall. He follows the Buddhist path toward enlightenment. As a bodhisattva, he chooses to delay his…

“Treesomy GT” (GT = Genetic Treeson) depicts a fictional genetic manipulation where an organism commits genetic treason against a person. Through genetic alteration, the person…

When people see OMD, they naturally think of Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark. That’s understandable, though in this case the abbreviation stands for Old Man Dreaming.

“GinX” is not an advertisement for gin, and the “X” following “Gin” isn’t added for emphasis. The letter “X” extends the word “gin” to create the phonetic suggestion of “jinx”—pronounced…

SIM, commonly known as a cell phone chip card (Subscriber Identity Module), serves as an abbreviation for multiple terms. In this work, I’ve created my own contextual usage, addressing…

“FFM Stockmarket Singers—The DAXhund III” presents another variation on the original theme. This work draws an analogy to the “Town Musicians of Bremen,” transposed to…

“Kijk alleen, maak er geen gebruik van (locked out)”— “Locked out” symbolizes the lack of access to the finer things in life—access that is denied to many people in our societies because…

What small children have always known is that the answer to the question “How does salt get into the sea?” is not scientific—”science is bad.” The answer is as simple as toddler thinking:…

This personalized variation of “Awesome Thing” also draws on the star theme. Logical, because it has been proven that we humans are nothing more than stardust, a (scientific) realization…

“STER’S”—is an ‘abbreviated’ picture title which, in combination with the word object ‘WEB’ in the picture as its appendix, forms the underlying theme. Superficially, it seems to be about…

“Translucent Memories” describes an image in my head that now also serves as the background image for my private data cloud – a reminder of our shared…

We are all familiar with blue lips (and I don’t mean lips with blue make-up), whether from our own childhood or from children when they come ashore shivering and with bluish lips after…

“Kashmere” is a construct of ‘Kashmir’ (the name of an ethnically diverse Himalayan region) and ‘cashmere’ (fine wool obtained from the fur of the cashmere goat, one of the most expensive…

The social network “X” stands, since it is controlled by Elon Musk, for a (perhaps not quite so) new, twisted understanding of truth, freedom of opinion and speech, and ‘facts’. Ultimately,…

Undoubtedly a still life: a wooden bench in the sunlight in the middle of a meadow—were it not for the short text and the bank logos burned into the backrest. In German, both the term…

“Global Pressure” at first glance, it’s about the international press. The international daily newspapers and the lettering “Press” seem to indicate this. Daily newspapers and the press present…

“b-earth-day”—the embedding of the earth from a space perspective in the context of a star in the process of formation generates the theme of this work. By integrating the image of the earth…

“Sadness of Loss” is an emotional state during a visit to C’s grave.

A little girl and her parents play streetball on a school playground with enthusiasm and dedication. It’s great to see how the girl performs in this game for which…

“The DAXhund II” is a variation on the original theme. The logo-like stylized shape of the dachshund is intended to achieve a more “serious” appearance.

View of the snow-covered horse pasture outside my kitchen window. It is snowing, and the shadows on the snow in the center of the picture resemble the face of Edward Snowden—…