The Juices is a triptych made of three essential organs : a heart, a book, and a brain, each pierced by a straw, as if they could be drunk, extracted, consumed. From that simple but sharp visual idea come three different “juices”: love juice, ignorance juice, and brain juice. The work plays with the absurdity of reducing huge human forces into something almost commercial, immediate, and ingestible, like emotions, culture, and thought could all be packaged into liquid form.

What interests me in this piece is exactly that tension between irony and truth. The heart becomes the container of feeling, passion, affection, obsession, and everything that nourishes or poisons us emotionally. The book turns into ignorance juice through paradox, because books should contain knowledge, yet here they also point to the possibility of empty learning, misunderstood culture, or the choice to remain blind even when knowledge is available. The brain, transformed into brain juice, becomes the image of thought itself turned into substance, as if intelligence, instinct, memory, and consciousness could be sipped through a straw.

There is something playful in the image, but also something brutal. The straw suggests extraction, consumption, dependence. It asks what people really feed themselves with: love, ignorance, or thought. And it also asks which of these is the easiest to swallow, which is the most addictive, and which one is most often abandoned. In that sense, The Juices becomes a visual joke with philosophical teeth. It looks direct, even cartoonish, but underneath it speaks about the way human beings consume feeling, knowledge, and intelligence in daily life.

These were also the first designs I ever tattooed in Berlin, which gives the work a foundational place in my path. Because of that, The Juices is not only an early concept, but almost a small manifesto: a first translation of my visual language from drawing into skin. That gives the triptych a special weight for me. It marks the beginning of something, the moment when an idea stopped being only an image and became part of a body.