micro-pathograffiti
Directly drawn on the cellophanes protecting the package and afterwards removing the "package" from the "contents" resulted in these artworks
To use the marketing space subjugating its consumers, advertisements from tobacco companies are reappropiated and personalized as an augmention of our individuality.
By regaining the advertisement space by writing and drawing directly on it and with both inscribing and scratching the surface of existence, we express our autonomous and free will both as artists and as individuals
. For consumers there is still the possibility to express a 'lost' freedom by invoking and counter attacking the same mechanisms that make us 'consumers' in the first place
To be able to untie the chains of the producer-consumer exsistential prison we free ourselves by writing, scratching and otherwise subvert the ordinary processes which are keeping us in a state of unconsciousness and as target prey for the predators of commodities producings elites.
As a political stanza it is a modest attempt to regain individual freedom in a privatised environment where one's ability to acquire products is almost the only human effort practised
-- Andreas Maria Jacobs