This project is directly connected to Faccio Facce, but pushed into a larger, more physical dimension.

Instead of small works on found paper, these faces were created on a monumental scale: 162 cm high by 99 cm wide. I made them live during the Berlin Tattoo Convention in 2022, producing one face per day across the event.

The process stayed faithful to the original instinct of Faccio Facce. I used the same old 5 cm Molotow marker to build the lines of the face quickly, in flow, without hesitation. But here the works evolved into something more layered.

Inside each face, I wrote in green marker, filling the surface with a stream of consciousness. From a distance, it reads like texture, almost like skin. Up close, it reveals itself for what it really is: an internal monologue, thoughts in motion, traces of what was passing through my mind in that exact moment.

Then, with pink marker, I added another living layer: I tattooed the faces with the same tattoos I had made that day during the convention. In this way, each piece became more than a portrait. It became a document of time, thought, work, and presence. A face, a mind, and a diary of the tattoos created on that specific day, all merged into one surface.

What makes this project even more meaningful is the material itself. The works were drawn on the back of old Berlin Tattoo Convention banners from previous years, given to me by Frank Weber (R.I.P.).
I had originally arrived at the convention with paper and had started drawing on every surface I could find. At a certain point, the firework team told me I was violating safety rules because of all the paper I had brought in. I answered in the only way that made sense to me: I want to draw, I am an artist, so what am I supposed to do?
Frank found the solution. He gave me the old banners so I could work on the reverse side. I removed all the paper and continued there.

That gesture changed everything. The project became not only a continuation of Faccio Facce, but also something rooted in the history of the convention itself. These are not just drawings made at the Berlin Tattoo Convention. They are drawings made on the remains of the Berlin Tattoo Convention, carrying its past years on one side and my live intervention on the other.

The result is a body of work born from urgency, adaptation, and instinct. Faces made live, filled with thought, marked by tattoos, and created on salvaged surfaces that already carried memory before I ever touched them.