POLYGONS zine cover and social media posts.
In 2025, I co founded AENEA MATTER with Onebran. The project was conceived as a platform for artists connected to the post graffiti scene, providing space for expression, public discourse, and visibility through curated exhibitions, art related events, and printed publications such as zines and art prints.
POLYGONS is the first publication by AENEA MATTER, featuring photographs from Micha von Vau’s trip to Athens. From his raw captures, we developed a narrative structure that guides the viewer through urban environments and abandoned spaces, forming a cohesive visual journey.
I approached this body of work as a map. Sorting and sequencing images taken by a foreigner in my own city felt like tracing his movements through a familiar territory. This idea directly influenced the visual identity of the publication.
For the cover, I designed polygonal forms derived from the title itself. When grouped together, these shapes evoke a fragmented city map, blocks of housing, empty plots, narrow alleys, and wide boulevards. The same conceptual language was extended to the social media visuals created for the publication’s release event, held in November 2025.
The zine's body layout was designed in collaboration with Onebran (co-founder of AENEA MATTER) and Georgina Aliazi (graphic designer).
"The German photographer, Micha von Vau, accompanied Greek artists in the Athens area. They pursued their passion in abandoned wastelands, transforming these places with diverse styles of urban art. During these shared days, further photographs emerged during solitary wanderings through the city.
The resulting images were sent back to Athens as an unsorted whole. Too many. Unordered. Like shards of broken vessels gathered in a single box. In antiquity, such shards carried meaning—used as markers or as humble carriers of brief inscriptions. In the same way, each image carries a message: visual and thematic. When certain shards are chosen and arranged in sequence, a new picture begins to take shape.
This book assembles the fragments of a journey into such a whole. Each photograph is a polygon, within which further polygons lie concealed. The eye of the viewer absorbs these color-filled forms—and suddenly, patterns and connections emerge. Weaving the unseen threads between the images."
Micha Von Vau