the project READY NOW developed in the first two months of 2003. on the 29th of january the berlin daily newspaper, Der Tagesspiegel published a half-page picture showing the aircraft carrier abraham lincoln with 500 sailors on board forming the words READY NOW with their bodies.

this picture with it's power, underpinned through the connection with verbal expression and body language and with it's potential for high media effectiveness, became a graphical trigger for the concept for the art project READY NOW. the idea behind using this picture was a concrete reference to the conflict between iraq and the usa. It serves as a metaphor for the basic conflict between orient and occident and in a time, in which the world is presented as politically and religiously split with interest blocks fighting one another, the individual becomes silent under the global strategies of the prevailing state interests.