Ukáž ich!
Show Them!
(2012)
I admit right away that this project didn't work out. More precisely, I just couldn't do it myself alone and lost motivation. As with other things I do, I like to invent, create, and prepare things. And then someone should come along who will market it, "sell it", and push it to the world. And that didn't happen : ). Nevertheless, I still think it's a great idea, and if someone wants to take it on, we'll definitely make a deal.
Project Show Them! was intended to alert the general public in a playful way to the need to visit a dermatologist and remind the issue of skin melanoma - skin cancer. Show your signs. Because it doesn't hurt and can "save your skin" (life).
I have a really huge number of marks myself, and new ones appear every year. I go to the dermatologist every year at the end of autumn or at the beginning of the new year. And absolutely everyone should take that tour too!
It doesn't matter if you have one or countless like me. You have to go and make sure your skin is healthy. It doesn't hurt, just show them.
“We want you to symbolically connect the birthmarks in the picture, and let your imagination run wild.”
Do you remember the children's game at elementary school, where the teacher drew dots on paper for us, we had to connect them and complete the picture to a drawing? Great and simple fun for kids that develops their imagination. And it was this game that I wanted to use for birthmarks as well.
We did a photo test with Tomáš Halás (photographer) and my skin.
This is how the logo - a stick figure - came into being
Later, a beautiful young woman with many birthmarks joined, who liked this idea and wanted to support it - Kristína Farkašová. Together with Martin Haburaj (photographer), she took these photos, where pieces of her body were supposed to serve as points that people should connect and draw.
I printed A4 and A5 cards, which we drew at one of the first Urban markets in Cvernovka.
Some more bonuses from the texts by Tomáš Prokopčák, who helped me with the project:
“We are not a company that wants to make money. We are also not manufacturers of annoying products that the internet is full of. And not even a crazy tabloid group of voyeurs who like to dig into the privacy of others.
We are people, still a little bit children and we like to play and implement our ideas. Especially if we can really help someone with this game - and we like to help people.
We are a loose group of enthusiasts. So much free that sometimes some help more and sometimes less. However, we thank everyone and appreciate the time and effort devoted to something that everyone did for free and out of pure enthusiasm.”