Current Projects

Let me introduce you to my current art projects.

Gods of Tomorrow

Almost all of my artwork revolves around the intersections of human and technology. I have a strong affinity to technology and how it shapes our human lives intrigues me. In order to explore these relations, I use my art.

The Gods of Tomorrow

Our world is undergoing rapid transformations, driven by the relentless advancement of technology and media. These changes are not just reshaping our lives but also our perceptions, ideals, and the very notion of beauty. ‘The Gods of Tomorrow’ is a series of artworks that explores the fusion of human aesthetic ideals with the stark, unyielding nature of technology. The ‘Gods of Tomorrow” are deities that reside within the networks of technology and the media and are hard wired to their realm that sustains them. These entities are personifications of the nexus of human and machine and wielders of the sythetic beauty created within the network of media – and we prey.

Eritreya, Gods of Tomorrow, charcoal and soft pastell on paper, 50x65cm, 2024.
Helret, Gods of Tomorrow, charcoal and soft pastell on paper, 50x65cm, 2024.

Inspiration


I’ve never been one for lightweight feel-good-kind-of art. It has simply never resonated with me. I love art, movies, and books that look beyond the superficial and make you think about them. Those that inspire thought and real emotion. For me, that is dystopian, dramatic, horror genre that allows me to explore unknown places.

What does art do with you? When you look at it, it should make you feel something – good or bad. I like my art strong, with a direct appeal to the viewer. Hence, my characters often meet your gaze and hold it. They are vulnerable but strong in their own ways – survivors in an ever changing world.

The Nexus Apocrypha:

The Nexus Apocrypha is a series of artworks that tell the untold stories of the technocalypse, a post-apocalyptic sci-fi world. Here, human and machine, fantasy and sci-fi merge in a dark surreal and often dystopian atmosphere.

The Giger Structure, The 7 Circuits, Acrylic on Canvas, 50x70cm, 2024.

What remains when we step off the relentless treadmill of life – working, earning, spending, and meeting others’ expectations and pause to listen to our souls? When we cease to perform and start to simply be?

‘The Nexus Apocrypha’ is a series of artworks that explore hidden mind spaces that are created in our technologically dense lives. Here, dystopian landscapes, human consciousness and the starkness of reality clash.

The creatures that inhabit these realms are allegories of the subconscious and the uncanny – unheimlich in the sense that they are truths that haunt the subconscious. The figures are silent sentinels and stark reminders of what we risk losing in a world that transforms us into mere remote controlled machines functioning. These figures – standing, crouching, sitting – serve as monuments. They invoke thoughts of what may be lost and cronfront the mechanization of our identities, emphasizing the erosion of creativity and spirituality, which are essential components of the human soul.

I want to invite you to reflect on the impact of our technologically driven world on our spiritual and creative selves.

The creatures are allegories of the subconscious. They are silent sentinels and stark reminders of what we risk losing in a world that transforms us into mere machines that function in the daily grind of an automated life. Meanwhile, the essence of the human soul is being stifled and creativity and spirituality in the wider sense erode.

So my figures stand, crouch, sit as monuments, invoking thoughts of what may be lost and confronting the mechanization of our identities.

Painting I show on the right: And yet there is hope, The Nexus Apocrypha, Acrylic on Canvas, 50x75cm, 2024.

Blackgold.

Sometimes you just need to let go and let the art flow freely from your hands. The love of free, expressive art is the origin of my Blackgold series of paintings.

Blindfolded, acrylic on paper, 50x70cm, 2022.
Elysia, acrylic on canvas board, 24x30cm, 2023.

Tales of Light and Darkness

The Tales of Light and Darkness feature a series of erotic dark fantasy paintings created as digital artworks. The paintings show angels and demons in different settings.

Bound but never broken, digital painting, 2018.


Tales of light and darkness

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