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[4am] realisation

A random artwork I found whilst going through my files the other day. Now I've decided to post it's because it's still quite relevant to me. I made it last summer, a life changing time... I had just managed to get through sixteen years in the education system finally had time to enjoy myself. I decided to spend most of my time travelling... I was in a different place almost every weekend. I met lots of people, lost and made some friends, started to make more art again and moved to a new country eventually. It's so good when you realise that you're completely free to do whatever the fuck you want. You create your own reality, it's only your decision what you do with your life. I'm happy with my life and the place where I'm living at the moment, but if I feel like it's time to move on I will. That's how I've always done it.

So this artwork is for all the people out there, especially the ones who feel that they are stuck in a boring job, stuck with a partner who just makes them unhappy, stuck in a place they don't want to live in or stuck in any kind of situation. And all the people who have recently been asking me things like "how do you do this?", "why are you always lucky?".  The door is just in front of you, open it and jump into your new reality. If people say you're crazy, take it as a compliment. You are doing something right.

Naturealistic

Forever blue

Over the last two weeks I've been working on this, it's certainly not perfect but perfection is boring anyway. I didn't intend to edit it this way, I had actually planned to leave it as close to the original as possible, but it simply wasn't colourful enough. Maybe I could even say I fucked up the original a little bit, or should I just call it an experiment? I guess either way is fine.

Ligjth

Yesterday I went on a long train journey from Switzerland to Italy - an excuse to spend a few hours editing, until my laptop was about to die. I made a lot of new stuff, which made it terribly difficult for me to decide which ones to post today. I edited a picture I've been drawing in the past week and whatever I did looks nothing like the original. It's just one of those things I love so much about editing, letting it take you on a journey and you don't know where you're going.

Lines

So I've had a few days off from making art, which I needed to explore the crazy night life in my new hometown Basel... and to recover from it. It was pretty good fun and now my head is full of ideas again and it's driving me a little bit mad but it's all coming together.

For some reason these designs remind me of my cover art I made for my band Katmandi, I can totally imagine this being some sort of album artwork. Maybe it's because parts of it are from a little book I always take with me where I write lyrics and I also use it as a diary a lot when I need to get things out of my system.

I've also been writing lyrics again recently and decided to scan most of my lyrics book/diary today, I don't even know why. I really got into writing again and I have the feeling I'll get the opportunity to turn them into songs soon. I usually get things if I really want them, so... let's hope a new project is coming may way maybe in the new year?

Conspiracy

This drawing is almost unedited, just made a few little adjustments but apart from that I left it to look like the original that I have made with different types of metallic pens.

I usually don't write too much about my artwork but since I love writing just like making art I want to say a few more things this time. Lately a lot of my inspiration is coming from the things that are going on around me, in this world and the system that we're in. Our current system and the very few rich people that are controlling this, expects us to live our lives like this: consume, obey the law, pay bills, get a shit job just so you can consume more crap that you don't need, marry someone who isn't even suitable for you so you can get divorced later, get a fucking mortgage borrowing money that doesn't exist, have kids that you put in front of the TV all day because you don't have time for them since you have to be in that meaningless job all day so you can consume consume consume so you're not a worthless cunt because.... well, the list goes on.

I'm not judging anyone who is getting fucked by the system, because honestly, all of us are in a way. I can only tell you one thing, this isn't a coincidence. This has been systematically designed by a few very rich and evil people on the top. Why doesn't everyone know about this? Because it's being suppressed by the mainstream media, which is controlled by them. I'm not trying to force my beliefs on anyone but people need to do their own research and question everything.

I see miserable people every day and it's sad because they don't realise that they are so much more than they think they are. The media is designed to make people think they have to look a certain way, have certain material possessions and have their life going a certain way because they're worthless otherwise. But it's not like that... I believe that this system is coming down very soon and things are going to change for the better as more and more people are realising these things.