Support and work with me
Do you wish to work with me and/or support my efforts - whether here on-site or because you are impressed by the journey I have been through? Awesome! I would appreciate a helping hand on the path to rebuilding my life. Please, take a look at the options below and see if one of those may suit you. If this is not the case, feel invited and most welcome to contact me and make a suggestion. I am up for creative ideas.
SUPPORT ME
In this blog post, I explain why I used up all my savings (i.e. more than 30,000 euros) and dared the greatest investment into myself. I did so irrespective of having just had resources available from one year of post-PhD work... A decision that has bankrupted me but I believe, it was useful.
If you wish to support my journey, here are some ideas of how you can do so:
Buy me a cup of tea.
OR:
Purchase some of my artwork and/or photography.
BUY MY ART
Colouring mandalas has been a very helpful activity in maintaining a certain level of sanity. It certainly results from long and accumulative hours of work. To help you out, I put an estimate of the hourly ´input´ below each picture. This might provide you with an idea of each piece´s potential value. The minimum value, I wish to receive is 25 NZD per hour. As for anything else, the decision is totally up to you.
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Most photos that you find on the site or attached to blog posts can be purchased upon request for 15 NZD per piece. (full resolution, original file; but be aware: I usually do not take ´raws´.)
If you rather wish to commission a mandala - superb. We can do so! Just let me know what style you prefer, colour scheme, theme and I will make sure that the next of my drawings is for you.
You can contact me via Instagram or here
WORK WITH ME
I am open to most creative ideas as long as they do not involve long hours in front of a computer screen.
I can do one hour a day, on a good day. Interviews in person or online (e.g. podcasts) are on the cards as much as video projects. Scientific work such as lectures and presentations or workshops about the contents of my PhD, working in the soil science space or about my healing journey will be possible from the end of 2025. I hope. Journalistic work depends on what it is that you envisage. I am doing a lot of creative writing at the moment and am dreaming of getting my first book manuscript down to paper. One day.
If you have an idea for a project - please, do not be shy. Hit me up and let me know!
I would love to get something cool started and work with you!
EXAMPLES OF MY WORK
From GEOlino (a popular science magazine for children), different local newspapers, an apprenticeship at ifp journalism school in Munich to being the editor-in-chief for a swim lifesaving magazine, and later science communication for Manaaki Whenua Landcare Research - the above gallery provides you with an idea of what I have been doing in the communication, graphic design, and journalism space.
Scientific achievements
Scientific work, i.e. journal publications that I contributed to, can be found on ResearchGate.
The whole of my PhD thesis Nitrous Oxide Emissions from Intensively Grazed Pastures is available there, too.
The science communication work for Manaaki Whenua resides on the New Zealand Soils Portal.
Wish to dig a little deeper?
Click and find more soil photography