I just one day sculpted it from a good girlfriend of mine, during summer 

her 

i was just listenin' to Nick Drake to much and this clay thing just sort of happened

river man 

An abstract portrait which captures a metaphoric "brain explosion" due to the random occurrence of a poem which goes: " The quiet preach of Maude teaches, It's the ghost love that he reaches, And comes out to me as speeches, Dare to seek from oddly creatures, It's the earth spright in thy body, And thy eyes are bright with stars."

brain fart

Size: 90H x 65W x 0.1D cm

Medium: acrylic on canvas 

"The echo of worrying ununiqness bounces of achingly red buildings like the rowdy sound of moving subway wheels" 

In the moments of self-hate and worrying numbness of self-worth, I turn to the first aid life depending white cable of my headphones. 

This painting is self-explanatory, representing the emotional bloodbath battle between the "bad" ugly and uncontrollably loud head located armies and the "good" music delivering whites, just like "The Good, the Bad and the Ugly" private screening...

On the left side near the face in the patch of white "don't be a jungle rat" is written with my name next to it.  From naked lunch by William S. Burroughs: "jungle rats are subjects to die if confronted suddenly with a hopeless situation".

ost midnight cowboy- Jhon Barry 

Size: 90H x 65W x 0.1D cm 

Medium: Acrylic on canvas

"In the beautiful that we have created can always spot the velvet gray mass of us"   

This painting was inspired by my unlimited love and the forever source of inspiration the dear Anthony Bourdain. 
Every time I forget about the great beauty of this world and am sucked into an unavoidable and unwanted deep pit of concentration on the "velvet gray mass of us", I turn to him and his shining greatness and it immediately helps me and draws me out giving me the full colorful world picture again. 
In the left corner, it says "let it leak" with my name signed near, which I got inspired by a Fran Lebowitz quotation about beauty which states that you are not attractive – you are simply leaking with beauty.  
I hope the observer takes the same advice. 
  




The dear Anthony 

Size: 90H x 65W x 0.1D cm 

Medium: Acrylic on canvas 

"Their cold blank eyes of meat traders" 

This work is linked to my other piece "Reflection", as this is what those "meat traders" look like, which are constant front row viewers of my everyday life, my on and off-going anxiety. 

I was able to capture one of their many faces by simply allowing my anxiety to rule my painting process and voila!

At the right bottom corner," the Lisa girl was led out", is my past deeply insecure high school self, as through my time in school my name was shorted by teachers to Lisa, which I hated with an utter passion, was "led out " - an African practice, of leaving old, in my case past, individuals into the wild and leaving them there. 

this dude looks like anxiety feels 

Size: 90H x 65W x 0.1D cm 
Medium: Acrylic on canvas 

"So many holes that even the blind can see" 

Painting is always personal and very intimate to me, I have created this work when experiencing some inner turbulences which had to be let out. 

To the observer: 
I hope that this creature of mine will trigger recognition and individual inner connection to the inside self or maybe similar inner demons, allowing to lead to the understanding that they are not alone and feel supported. 

At the bottom left corner, "they mosquitoes" is crossed out with my name signed on top of it 

mosquitoes 

Size: 90H x 65W x 0.1D cm 

Medium: acrylic on canvas 

"Do a cold turkey on them before allowing the Golden egg crack" 

In a way, this is a self-portrait, while painting it I tried to give myself a lesson, give myself advice. I do hope that whoever looks at it will also find an inner minute of self-love and self-respect. 

At the bottom left corner, a phrase of: "their cold blank eyes of meat traders" is crossed out with my name signed on top of it.

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