The series began in 2021, when I found on the street four beautiful frames in perfect condition, each carrying one of the Chinese Hanzi or Japanese Kanji for the four seasons: Spring 春, Summer 夏, Autumn 秋, Winter 冬. Initially, for how beautiful I found the descriptive Chinese and Japanese language, I did not really care about the symbols themselves, and I thought I could simply use the frames for some of my originals. So I flipped the paper, and there I got the inspiration, the eureka, the epiphany: everything became the opposite. I used colours inspired, for instance, by autumn for the kanji of summer, and that is how I got the colours used inside. Since it was flipped, I could only see the symbol as if it were mirrored, and that was perfect. I just retraced it, spelled the name of the season backwards, and created the composition for the originals. I then copied each sign using what I felt to be its color, and inside those frames I placed four of my older original works: one from 2017, two from 2018, and one from 2019.

This first piece is remmoS, which is of course Sommer mirrored and reversed, becoming its own title and identity.

Inside this work I placed my first-ever Teletubbies drawing. To understand why, you have to rewind to the years between 2006 and 2011, when my younger brother was completely obsessed with the Teletubbies. Every morning he would sit in front of the TV, hypnotized by Tinky-Winky, Dipsy, Laa-Laa, and Po and their absurd, colorful universe. For him it was pure magic. For me it was torture. I hated those creatures because they took over the television and kept me away from the things I actually wanted to watch. Back then, they felt like noise, repetition, and invasion.

In 2018, after a 48-hour bender in Berghain, I went back to my studio and drew a yellow Teletubby. While making it, something unexpected happened: all those mornings with my brother came back at once. What I had remembered only as annoyance suddenly revealed itself as something else, something tender. The drawing stopped being about the show and became about our childhood, about time shared without knowing it would later become precious.

That is why this piece matters to me. The Teletubby in remmoS is not there just as a character, but as a vehicle of memory, of brotherhood, and of that weird emotional mechanism through which things we once rejected return later charged with meaning. In the work there is also a school bus, inspired by my friend Aaron, @aaronistattoo, who used to have one. The yellow Teletubby from this piece was later tattooed on Sam, @scastrotattoo, giving that memory another life on skin.