Kleinwesen

Hello :) I’m Laura Ascari, based in Berlin since 2019. My primary career is in Psychology, I counsel migrant women in a Frauenzentrum in Schoneberg, and give workshops in psychology and alternative sexualities. Kleinwesen is an artistic project started in 2020, and it’s a series of minimalistic drawings through which I elaborate and digest small bites or huge chunks of life: friends, work, lovers, politics, family. The sole executor is myself, and so far I mostly create hand-drawn comic books separated in chapters, solo-hand-drawn cards or booklets.

Drawing several creatures every day, these joyous and sarcastic beings have been always infesting my head: I simply let them out.

I use them as a form of therapy, getting feelings out of myself through irony and humor, to make my friends laugh or allow myself to reflect without fear.

I love trying different pencils and brushes on diverse textures of paper. Half of the pleasure comes from the idea and half comes from the execution, which is why I haven’t printed anything so far.