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Flora und Fauna
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Désirée Spoden, Stuttgart

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A stack of customary notepads, a black pen and a free mind – nothing

more was necessary for this series of black-and-white graphics.

Sounds simple, but it was especially the last component which pre-

sented the major challenge: not following the reasonable mind but

intuition and giving free rein to one’s hand. I wanted to design as
ingeniously and freely as in my days as an interior design student or

even in my childhood. Slip after slip I felt the soothing power coming

from this creative process – far from regulations, time pressure and

customer requests, which often set boundaries to one’s fantasy in

everyday professional life. In the end, more than 30 nine by nine cen-

timetre drawings lay in front of me. They allowed numerous associa-

tions and were yet dividable into three groups: flora and fauna, geom-

etry and architecture as well as cosmos respectively the universe. In

a second step, I therefore digitally dissolved the respective small

graphics, recomposed them as three large ornamental pictures follow-

ing the themes, and finally used colour to breathe life into them.

Granted: the second step was again overly intellectual, but it was fun

nevertheless! Maybe because ration has finally had a break.

Désirée Spoden