Engine of Survival

A.G.N.W.

Year2025

MediumDigital Artwork on Paper

Dimensions 30 × 30 × 1 cm

As a great fan of the worldknown Slovene music artistic group LAIBACH, I was playing with some digital-art manipulations of photographs of stags and other motives, like central cross, and themes of the group's songs. I needed special creative times to help me through certain therapy (dealing with long covid nerve and muscle problems in my legs). I only used my smart phone with it's program of pictures modification. This very picture works as a poster, showing that LOVE is the only Engine of Survival (which is the title of one of the original Laibach songs, while the whole saying is one of the famous quotes of Leonard Cohen from his song The Future, which Laibach also made a cover of). I wanted to pit-point the dramatic truth of this with the choice of colours - grey, black and white, with its contrasts, and the red as the bloody heart-center ... You can see more of my works on my FB site, and on Laibach's website https://www.laibach.org/volkskunst/laibach-kunst/.