Ann-Kathrin Schubert is a young German illustrator based in London. Her series ‘The Fear of Life’ describes a transition of a static and dead structure turning into a living being and vice versa, for example plastic bottles becoming coral reef fish or humans turning into dust.

In particular it evolves around 9/11 and the moment of impact, when the two Boeing 767 passenger planes struck into the Towers until not only the buildings but also all the people inside them disintegrated together into dust, rubble and smoke. At 10:28:25 sec both Towers were gone and the city that never sleeps was almost silent.

“The videos and images of the planes colliding with the Towers were broad-casted over and over again because of their unreal quality, everybody needed reassurance of what they were actually seeing, trying to make sense of it. My imagery removes everything that happened before and after that day but relies mostly on repetitive elements.

In the future I would like to get to know more about the conflicts that include employing suicide as a strategy and ultimately understand more about visual communication and the images that are generated in response to these events.”