Artist’s sketchbook blog in the form of a visual journal sorted by month.
Due to an avalanche of commercial jobs and the fact that most of my friends and partners were away on trips, I battled a kind of emotional emptyness in September that also made its way into my sketchbook. Excited about fall, but not really sure what else, showing up to my practices was an uphill battle.
Read MoreAfter settling in at my new place, it became apparent once more that serene surroundings are not a guarantee for peace of mind. There’s a fine line between ease and grit where my neurotic self feels grounded, and I longed for ways to bring the grit back in – like making the switch from my sleek coworking space to a messy art studio.
Read MoreAfter moving house for the third time in three years, July was a much-needed recovery period from all the recent changes to my life. I spent it on making a home with my new domestic partner, practising tattooing and, most of all, bringing together inner opposites to finally feel a sense of peace.
Read MoreIn June I was supposed to attend a wedding, but had a breakdown the night before. The following weeks turned into an exploration towards an inner wedding instead – making peace between two parts of me that had been long at war – and so my trip to Lisbon became a honeymoon of sorts.
Read MoreBetween becoming a tattoo artist and my search for a place I could call home, I went through an intense period of inspiration, determination, and political organising to ward off my anxiety towards the ever-looming threat of fascism. But what if the fascism is coming from inside of the house?
Read MoreAfter my latest journey to Gran Canaria ended in a foreseeable catastrophe, I had to regroup once again in Leipzig. The holes in my life I had been distracting myself from became apparent, and so I set out to fix them.
Read MoreA time of death and rebirth. I spent February in Germany and returned to Gran Canaria once more in March to close a circuit that had been running for one and a half years.
Read MoreIn February my life in Leipzig intensified after I started working at a new creative coworking space, as well as moving into my new art studio – truly a room of one’s own, where amongst other things, my energy for polital activism reemerged.
Read MoreJanuary is a challenging month as it is. My sketchbook pages from one of the coldest times in Leipzig, spent in sub-zero temperatures.
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