Last year I was commisioned by the city of Roeselare in Belgium to create an artwork inspired by Albrecht Rodenbach, a local poet, rebel and folk hero who is considered one of the symbols of Flemish movement.
My concept for this artwork was twofold:
on one hand, it speaks of idea transmission; a singular idea being sparked into existence from ether, and then having so much charge that it spreads, grows, multiplies and develops into a wave of many, until an aggregate becomes a movement, a revolution, and finally a change. We are united and divided by what we believe the world to be.
On the other hand, it also speaks of us humans coming from the same source as singular beings, but then learning through trials of life that the ultimate craving we all share is that primal sense of unity and belonging. It’s both a need and a law of life on earth. We can only truly live-love-laugh in co-exhistence and collaboration with others, as well as to create and build in a meaningful way that lasts and doesn’t do harm.
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An interesting coincidence about this artwork is the location - the mural talking about unity and co-existence is right in front of a bar where local right-wing nationalists and separatists like to hang out daily. I did not know this when doing the sketch.
I have been commissioned to paint a wall for Loftas Festival 2019 in Vilnius, Lithuania. It’s a music festival that curates a street art program in parallel, inviting local and international artists.
A FOOL TO THE FULL
A LOVER LIKE NO OTHER
When I was making a sketch for the wall, I was thinking what message I want to be visible for people that pass this every day, what do I want to say to the place that I come from? And it was really enough just to look at myself growing up here - all the walls I had to break through and all the fears I had to face of not doing the right thing, of failing, of being not good enough... Bah! In the end it's all just ideas that we limit ourselves with! Who makes the rules anyway?
So I'm saying: Baby, just make all the mistakes you want to make! Be your true self to the full, love to the max, expand to infinity! Come on let's go!
I have been commissioned by Industry City to paint a wall for their location in New York. The initiative is part of their Collision project, that invites female identifying artist to activate spaces around their 16 building complex in Brooklyn.
Wall commissioned by Justkids for Life Is Beautiful Festival in Las Vegas, USA. Each year the festival has a carefully curated art programme that turned Downtown LV into a heavyweight urban art destination.
I SLOWLY MELT INTO ETERNITY
IT’S ALL I EVER WANTED
PERPETUAL EXPANDING ECSTASY
I was invited to do a mural for Tictail Market store in Lower East Side, New York City.
Baby, You’re Everything! wall is an inspiration, affirmation and an invitation for a celebration of our human existence.
Wall painted for Global Street Art in Shoreditch, London.
I AM NEVER ALONE EVEN WHEN I CANNOT SEE
I FIND MY FUTURE IN MY PAST SELVES
I LET THE WORLD FLOW THROUGH ME
EVERY MOMENT I BECOME MY MOST AUTHENTIC SELF
I have been commissioned by Multiplex Cinemas chain to paint a billboard in the heart of Kiev, Ukraine.
It couldn’t be a direct advertisement, but had to reflect the spirit of their brand.
Wall size is 16.5m x 9m.
Personal work.
A wall in Poble Nou, Barcelona, painted in October 2018.
If you can no longer fight your demons, join them!
Personal work. A wall in Poble Nou, Barcelona, painted in June 2018.
I WELCOME MY DEMONS
THEY LIFT ME UP INTO ETERNITY
Private commission in Brooklyn, New York.
LIFE OF LEISURE
I’M NEVER NOT HERE
SOFT DEMISE
I SAW IT COMING