projects
48. Title: Expectation. Dimensions: height 350 cm, width about 350 cm. Materials: dead pine-tree branches and twigs bound together with sisal ropes, broken mirrors glued together again and hung on sisal ropes and stuck into the twigs reflecting the sun rays, lava stones used for base and wall construction, and 30 small stones hung on sisal ropes, moving slowly by the wind in an strange pattern. I constructed a place inside the object for people to lie down and relax, reflect, contemplate, think about nothing or just to have a siesta.
An object totally made out of locally found natural materials, placed in an appropriate natural environment and made by man. It is this combination that is vital and of upmost importance. We have to live and create a society that respects the natural environment and it's materials,and also come to understand that we are just a tiny part of this. We have to find a balance between ourselves, our demands, and our living spaces in accordance to the natural environment. Not just using it in the way we see fit. Destroying our environment and using materials just for the various demands concerning living 'our-way', killing each other for political and economic reasons and using our fellow living creatures to satisfy our appetites. Who do we think we really are? This object can be seen as a totally newly proposed utopian environment, a city, village or a community where mankind is living in peace and with respect to nature. Or it can be interpreted even as mankind itself - with at its center our emotions, ideas, good will, and respect for all and everything, represented by the moving small stones and reflecting mirrors sending their messages to the world. Because of the man made disasters which will always recur over and over again, like recently the Japan earthquake with tsunami and the giant problems with the Fukushima nuclear plant, my Expectation is that people will ultimately come to understand that we have to change and that there is no future left if we just continue the way we are used to do. Well, it is only an expectation and time will be the judge of that.
