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The birthday present stood on the table. She knew his moods and was also silent. That Friday, their son’s birthday, everything went wrong. The telephone rang a second time. The same toneless, anxious young voice asked for Charlie. When he had gone to bed, she remained in the living room with her pack of soiled playing cards and her old photograph albums. She turned the pages of the book. Minsk, the Revolution, Leipzig, Berlin, Leipzig again, a slanting house front, badly out of focus. Here he was at ten — the year they left Europe. His cousin, now a famous chess player.

SIGns and symbols


2012

Illustrations for the short story “Signs and Symbols” by Vladimir Nabokov.  A book containing the illustrations was designed in collaboration with Chris Nott and was shortlisted for the Adobe Design Awards in 2012.

German-English Illustrator and Artist based in Brighton, UK

My work explores how illustration can be used as an active tool for understanding, interpreting and re-evaluating dominant narratives and discourse about historical events. How can illustration add to our understanding of history, how can it challenge it?

I am interested in exploring and highlighting the ways in which history is recorded, suppressed, remembered and distorted. I have become particularly interested in how meaning and underlying power structures contained within archival records can be interpreted through the act of drawing. Often working with archival artefacts and personal testimony, I create narrative sequences and visual essays that explore my own relationship to history.