Fluid Installation that I created specifically for the Drawing Center in NYC in 2002. The ceramic cylinders were created during an art residency at the Kohler factory in Wisconsin.

The whole installation started out with a series of drawings that I created for the drawing center.

This moment in the installation represents death, the ultimate moment of relaxation.

In art it is often through pain that beauty can arise.

The flower liquid is the life juice which runs through the whole installation. It grows up from the eggs in the beginning (rear part of installation), runs through the ceiling and finally flows down into this finger bunch here in the final moment of death, to splatter down on the ground and merge with the universe.

Here you can see how the exhibition flows out into the street merging with the lives of all passers by.

The flowersplash is violent and beautiful!

Blood that turns into flowers. Pain that turns into beauty!

In this picture one can see the colorful final moment, when all aspects of a life are coming to the surface. In the background there is one illustration of a difficult life situation.

An illustration of a difficult moment in life.

These two creatures are tongue tied. They can’t express themselves in the situation they are in.

The clamp which squeezes their tongues is hard and powerful, but it also features a luxurious red velvet cushioning.

These ceramic plant eggs are the beginning of the whole life cycle.

The life fluid which grows out of these plant eggs consists of a white veil, leaves and flowers.

In the background the eggs continue into the wall through a trompe-l'œil effect painted onto the back wall.

Trompe-l'œil effect painted onto the back wall.

This gigantic finger represents a figure of authority. But in this moment its power is melting into the ground.