Psychotherapeut Johan Deckmann entwirft Cover fiktionaler Selbsthilfe-Ratgeber
Psychotherapeut Johan Deckmann aus Kopenhagen veröffentlicht reihenweise Selbsthilfe-Ratgeber …zumindest deren Cover! Der kreative Däne (hier bei Instagram) sammelt Buchdeckel aus Antiquariaten oder von Flohmärkten und bepinselt diese mit brutal ehrlichen Titeln. Am Tage analysiert Deckmann quasi das menschliche Verhalten. In der Nacht schreibt er seine Beobachtungen dann als Titel für seine fiktionale Selbsthilfepublikationen nieder. Die meisten seiner Stücke schaffen es gekonnt, zwischen Unterhaltung und ergreifenden Elementen zu Balancieren. Er selbst ließ zu seinem Projekt verlauten: „My work is a portrait of human failure and self-sabotage, but my underlying motive is to mirror my audience and motivate change. I think my work resonates with people because many people in the western world are raised to believe that they are victims of their surroundings. I show through my works that they are not.“ – Direkt hier unten lassen sich ein paar Highlights aus dem Deckmann’schen Schaffen in Augenschein nehmen:
According to a recent study, the U.S. market for self-improvement is $9.9 billion. Despite that, many therapists think that self-help books are useless. Gregg Williams, for example, says that change is hard, improvements happen unevenly, involve many steps and take a lot of time. Nothing even remotely close to what the self-help reads are preaching. Luckily, Johan Deckmann has something that’s way better. By day, Deckmann analyzes the human behavior; by night, he writes down his observations as titles for fictional self-help publications. Using books found in antique shops as a canvas, the practicing psychotherapist transforms their boring covers into witty jokes. Even though most of his pieces balance between the hilarious and the poignant, their faded color and worn texture take the readers on an emotional journey of self-reflection and soul-searching.
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