Rückführung Plus

[...] Abrupt blieb Chester stehen. Hinter einem umgefallenen Baum schimmerte synthetisches Grün. Beim Näherkommen war ein Zelt zu erkennen, provisorisch getarnt mit Kiefernzweigen. Woher hatte Rommadomm die Ausrüstung? Vor dem Zelt befand sich eine Feuerstelle, daneben lag eine primitive Axt, aus einem Stück Ast gefertigt, an das mit Schnürsenkeln ein Keilförmiger behauener Stein gebunden war. Chester prüfte mit dem Daumen die Klinge: Das war die Arbeit von Tagen, Respekt! [...]
Text: Ruth Kornberger
Asphaltspuren #12

Fashion's Black-Up Walks the Thin White Line

When Robert Downey Jr had to black up for the role of Kirk Lazarus in Tropic Thunder, he remarked “If it's done right, it could be the type of role you called Peter Sellers to do 35 years ago. If you don't do it right, we're all going to hell.”
The people who didn't do it right and subsequently are going to hell is the team at French Vogue. Lara Stone, the Dutch glamazon with legs up to her Mick Jagger pout, was blacked up for a series of images in French Vogue’s October issue. Styled by editor-in-chief Carine 'DeVille' Roitfeld and shot by self-confessed controversy junkie Steven Miesel, the spread caused a media frenzy, with blogosphere waxing wild for its derogrative minstrel implications and colonial undertones. [...]
Words: Sarah Bonser
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Basic-Needs

Ego Bruise Magazine #2

Katherine Mansfield

My drawing shows Katherine Mansfield (1888-1923) reading her short story "The Garden Party". This work is included in issue #15 of 000x.
Have a look: www.000x.ch

Gerät

Poor young woman! Evil farmer! This creepy illustration is published in issue #36 of "Balkon & Garten". The topic is "Gerät".

Horsemeat

This illustration is inspired by a story of Ödön von Horváth, a German-language playwright and author of the twentieth century. It is a b/w laser printing, which I have afterwards coloured with pencil and crayon . I have done this work for our exhibition "9x9", which is taking place at the Kunstwerk in Cologne this weekend.