Tomato Košir: A job or a vocation?

My profession gives me the privilege of not only serving the traditional client — an organization — but also, occasionally, the public. Specifically, I respond when the engagement of civil society is needed. A visual commentary has to be quick, clear, and hopefully not banal. In a time when we are overwhelmed with messages, the speed of communication is the greatest advantage of visual commentary.
It can communicate up to 30.000-times faster than the written word. In the book »Visual Commentary,« I have gathered over 120 commentaries since the year 2000, going back to my student years when I created my first anti-war poster, Rifle War Wear. While exhibitions leave significant marks in time, a book serves as a more enduring document. »Visual Commentary« provides a visual overview of the past two decades, which have been anything but good.
Although my contribution is relatively small, my motto since high school has been: Contribute as much as you can and do not diminish the contributions of others. Every day, my classmates and I would read, or at least subliminally perceive, Plečnik's inscription on the facade of the Secondary School for Design and Photography in Križanke: »You are fleeting; only your works remain.« Plečnik could not have given a more fitting message in his last creation. The turbulent events of the past decades have not fuelled my work, but they have engaged me as a citizen. Having the knowledge and skills of visual communication at my disposal, 
I feel responsible to use them. After all, designing visual messages is a vocation, not merely a job, is it not?
As I return to teaching after a long break this year, my natural instinct has urged me to approach my work introspectively, and even more so, to evaluate the formative history of our society. A visual introspective. This is not about a portfolio; it is about visual stimulation that can serve as a madeleine to encourage self-reflection, 
or as a means to contextualise recent times.