The huge installed sculpture made of paper resembles a husk with its’ seedbeds hung by a tree. It interacts with the weather conditions and is moved by wind. This underlines the fragile and subtle character of the sculpture.

The idea behind this project is the beginning of humankind and society. History explains us that with the beginning of agriculture, humans formed bigger societies with different task areas. The labour was subdivided between the inhabitants to alleviate the different works. Nowadays this structure became refined in a high level, and we lost the physical approach to a whole process of making. Agriculture is no more a deep understanding of nature, but it’s fully domination. This imbalance between organic material and human artefacts brought me to the idealization of an alternative genesis of the human. In my picture the human emerges from a husk which could resemble a legume. The body is no more the shape that we know, but a multitude of seeds. But as the sculpture represent only the husk and not the body, the main form is characterised by many hollows. The variety of the shapes of the hollows reflect the sizes of the body and bestow a repetitional pattern. 

This sculpture is for me the beginning of a rethinking from where the human came from, for what reason he came for and to gain respect for the universality of smaller and bigger creatures that surrounds us.

Wie der Mensch von der Bohne entstammte

Pappmaschee

230 x 80 x 10 cm

2021