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Sculptures
"Shellheads", Sculpture, 2006
Epoxy, papier-mâché, found objects, wood, metal, elastic straps, insectspray, glue.
The two shellheads are approx. 1,5 m high. A metal pole goes through the vertical middle. To the pole are a number of elastic straps attached. The straps run outside, through the holes and to the objects outside the floor. The objects are glued to the floor, and the elastic straps are tense.
Shellheads, full view
Shellheads, full view
Shellheads, full view
Shellheads, Detail
Shellheads, Detail
Shellheads, Detail
Shellheads, Detail
Shellheads, Detail
Shellheads, Detail
Shellheads, Detail
Shellheads, Detail
Shellheads, Detail
Shellheads, full view
Shellheads, Detail
Shellheads, Detail
"Fleischwolf/simple machine"
The sculpture "Simple Machine" was shown together with the drawing "Fleischwolf" at Galerie Olaf Stüber, Berlin in 2006.
Sculpture: Dolls head, shrunken MC-helmet, maggots, sugar, metal, wire, plastic, found objects.

Description: In the bowl to the left there are approximately 2000 housefly maggots. In the bowl to the right are sugar-cubes. As the maggots hatched into houseflies, the desire to eat the sugar forces them to fly through the transparent hose, going through the head on the pole.
Simple Machine / Fleischwolf, full view
Simple Machine, Detail
Simple Machine, Detail
Simple Machine, Detail
Simple Machine, Detail
Simple Machine, Detail
Simple Machine, Detail
Simple Machine, Detail
"Meat on Bones", 2005. Made in "SOX36", Berlin.
Installation in window. Various materials (metal, clay, wood, rubber foam, plastic, cigarette lighters, metal bowls, insect spray, leather straps, silver spray, shelves, screws, consoles,) Various homemade weapon-sculptures; collected.
The weapons are related to the Splinter-forms, collected in the bowls. The helmets are cast and shrunken to half width. Every weapon is restrained, attached with leather straps or elastic straps.
"Meat on bones" is for me a separate follow-up to "Mobilization Table".
Meat on Bones, window view
Meat on Bones, Detail
Meat on Bones, Detail
Meat on Bones, Detail
Meat on Bones, Detail
Meat on Bones, Detail
Meat on Bones, Detail
Meat on Bones, Detail
Meat on Bones, Detail
Meat on Bones, window view
"Mobilization Table", 2004
Measure 2 x 1.5 x 1 meter. Metal, pvc-foam, paint, wood, acrylic glass, rubber foam, screws, axes, insect spray, light(lighbulbs)
The "table" is a metal frame, creating a 2x1,5x1 meter space in which the objects are attached, defining a space, a situation.
Mobilization Table, overview
Mobilization Table, overview
Mobilization Table, overview
Mobilization Table, detail
Mobilization Table, detail
Mobilization Table, overview
Mobilization Table, above
Mobilization Table, back side
Mobilization Table, Detail
Mobilization Table, Detail
Mobilization Table, Detail
Mobilization Table, Detail
Mobilization Table, Detail
Mobilization Table, Detail
Mobilization Table, Detail
Mobilization Table, Detail
Mobilization Table, Detail
Mobilization Table, Detail