Categorie: Ontwerp

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Ukraine Chessboard

Ukraine Chessboard
Fine art print in room

The colours of Ukraine represent the ‘sky’ (blue) and the ‘wheat’ (yellow). Anno 2023 Ukraine is the chess board of autonomy and sovereignty, literally and figuratively. The Russian invasion at the end of February 2022 seems to be about expanding the empire of Great Russia Peter the Great, possibly about confiscating the fertile grounds of Ukraine,

This chess board has become a metaphor for the fight for democracy and freedom against autocracy and unfreedom. Presently the most felt and communicated semantic differential in the West, but possibly and even more likely, history will tell us that there is more under the sun.

This rectangle archival pigment print in the national colours of Ukraine is a strong reminder on the wall of how fragile democracy, dignity and freedom are and that fight. The Ukraine chess board is the playing field for strategic, tactical and operational thinking and acting starts with this magic board palette.

    • Dimensions: 80 x 80 cm
    • Limited edition print (1/1, donated)
    • Metal print
    • Signed Artist Proof
    • Designed by Jack Kruf, 2022
    • Printed in Amsterdam, The Netherlands

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Fragmented Forest

© Jack Kruf (2023) Fragmented Forest [fine art print]. Breda: Private collection.

Fragmentation of the forest reduces the quality and diversity of the ecosystem. Roads (white) and system borders (black) are really the main causes of the decline. Roads are for humans not for forests. They serve as carriers for leisure in, exploitation and destruction (red) of the natural habitats. Forest simply can not handle human dynamics.

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Land of Care

© Jack Kruf (2021) Land of Care [fine art print]. Breda: Private collection.

For our care related to health and well-being every citizen will experience the different fields and offices for finding and contracting. In fact the landscape is segmented, divided by roads (white) and system borders (black). The fields of pink are that of care and blue as the color of (the collection of) governments where citizens have to deal with.

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Oxman project: AGUAHOJA

Neri Oxman: “Derived from the sea and returned to the soil, we utilize decay as a design feature. Image from website Oxman.com.

According to the United Nations Environmental Program (UNEP), over 300 million tons of plastic are produced globally each year, leaving harmful imprints on the environment. Less than 10% of this material is recycled, while the rest becomes waste, dumped into landfills and oceans; all the while, plastic-based materials utilize raw ingredients that are extracted from the earth faster than they can be replenished, and are processed through environmentally destructive means. There is another way.”

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