issues to keep you awake

Because of Belgium's month of philosophy several Belgian and Dutch philosophers were asked by newspaper De Morgen to write an article on the issue that keeps them awake. What is the big question of our time?

The first out of eight I had to illustrate was by Coen Simon, the question being How much fakery can society take? and is published in today's newpaper. 
Due to our new digital media, true & false can hardly be distinguished from each other, and even new digital systems themselves don't make things any clearer. However, the fact that there are technological resources standing between man and the truth is as old as man himself. Think Plato's cave. The role of the philosopher of our time is not bringing to light truth itself, but the ways in which they're established.

Anyway, I came up with an image where two well-known optical illusions are combined. Everyone knows the duck/rabbit and the trick it plays on our minds. Well, not everyone maybe. My four year old was so confused by the image, he took it to bed. I'm wondering, did it keep him awake..

does 'size matters' matter?

The question was: are men with wide faces more attractive for a one-night stand? 
Research indicates that the skull width of a man determines the woman's choice in partners. We prefer a strong, tough guy for our short-term-relationships. A broad head indicates more manhood, because testosterone affects the facial growth. Whether these testosterone-tough-toyboys automatically carry better genes for posterity has not been proven, despite the many studies on this issue.

But really, the actual question should be: who cares about these fucking studies?

license to print

Last day of my screen-printing-refresher-course. I just received my license to print. I'm good to go. True, the larger surfaces need some more practice.. But the small parts, I've got them covered. Note to self: stop covering yourself with ink.

allround, almost

After assembling an IKEA shelving unit and then hanging it absolute straight to non-perpendicular walls, wallpapering her entire bedroom with eerie precision and exactly one (1) roll of wallpaper, today she managed to create her first perfectly matched two-colour textile screen prints. One might start to wonder if there is anything this woman cannot do? Besides writing about more significant activities in the first-person.. Or taking sharper pictures.

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What is this, rejection-week?! I had one of my - what I personally thought bést - pieces shredded&chopped beginning this week. And, while still recovering of disbelief, just this afternoon another client called my icons-project (flaunted them in the blog below) into question. Much more gentle though (thank you from the bottom of my hypersensitive artist's heart) and I do agree I should chuck a few of them (the ones I didn't show you, for obvious reasons) and (yes) there is room for improvement. But still. That makes two rejections. 

Well you can't win 'em all. And besides that, all this misunderstoodness makes me feel inscrutable and.. artist-ish or whatever. Just don't make me feel it twice a week.

psssst

This project is taking forever to be published. I can't take it anymore. I'm going to give a few away now, don't tell anyone..

working my ass off