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Mao is watching
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint-pen, paper money, newspaper and cut-outs on paper
168 x 168 cm
2013
In my dreams I hide
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
It gives light to others
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
Dream catcher a little device
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
The days were filled with sounds and sights.
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
Heading beyond the sky
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
And shine on in an eternal cycle
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
If I shout, will anyone hear?
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
Floating around
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
L'invito
Encaustic, acrylic, coloured, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pen on paper
56 x 76 cm
2013
But, no one else exists in space
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
Sending this message back in time
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
A start of a new life
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
On an unmapped road
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
We live in secret cities
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
Waiting for a bite
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
Feeling somewhat restless
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
50 x 70 cm
2013
The cylinders
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
On a planet too old to care for
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
Finding safety within
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
Shape all around us
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
56 x 76 cm
2013
On a platform
Encaustic, acrylic, coloured, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pen on paper
56 x 76 cm
2013
Walls and fences
Acrylic, coloured, mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
56 x 76 cm
2013
Solid as a rock
Encaustic, acrylic, coloured, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pen on paper
56 x 76 cm
2013
The last chance
Encaustic, acrylic, coloured, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pen on paper
56 x 76 cm
2013
Spaceship looking for a viable planet
Encaustic, acrylic, coloured, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pen on paper
56 x 76 cm
2013
It came with the threat of a full moon
Encaustic, acrylic, coloured, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pen on paper
56 x 152 cm Diptych
2013
Fireball approaching
Encaustic, acrylic, coloured, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pen on paper
56 x 76 cm
2013
Echoes of the spheres
Encaustic, acrylic, coloured, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pen on paper
56 x 76 cm
2013
Peeking into new possibilities
Encaustic, coloured, mechanical pencils and ballpoint pen on paper
56 x 76 cm
2013
Multiplication of the disks I
Encaustic on paper
56 x 76 cm
2013
Multiplication of the disks II
Encaustic, coloured and mechanical pencils on paper
56 x 76 cm
2013
Confrontation
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013
Manna from heaven
Acrylic, coloured and mechanical pencils, ballpoint pen on paper
42 x 56 cm
2013

For thousands of years human beings have dreamt of perfect worlds, worlds free of conflict, hunger and unhappiness. In 1516 Sir Thomas More wrote the first 'Utopia'. He devised the word 'utopia' from the Greek ou-topos meaning 'no place' or 'nowhere'. The proposed series “In search of a new Utopia” sets out to explore the transformative possibilities of visionary cities floating in the outer space. A visual study of impossible or speculative structures, man-made space machines that exist only on paper. They appear to be autonomous planets, self-regulated suspended islands, but lifeless, as if they have been abandoned in the past and wait for new settlers to arrive.