Living art is just that, the medium is  living, growing, changing. because living art is not static, one never knows how the sculpture will look with the passage of seasons, years, or decades. Perhaps centuries. I try to picture what my works will look like 20 years from now, several images appear, yet I really have no idea. That's the beauty of the whole thing for me.

In former days there has been a strong veneration of the bull. Strangely enough, the bulls head is very similar to the female reproductive organs. This was the basic idea of this art work. Inside the womb one can see a symbolized baby, ready to leave the water world through the vagina into the air world.

In most myths the number 21 carries the symbol for a "divine cycle" = 3x7=21, with "7" as the number for steps in every natural cycle, and "3" as the number for the divine Trinity. Here 21 red birds sit around a stainless steel tube filled with water. The surrounding area is hot and dry rock. They are turning outside, as if they want to protect the water inside.

Turtles are the symbol for long life. The inner circle contains 7 (7 steps in every natural cycle) around a gold plated rock. All together there are 21 = 3 x 7 turtles, with the "3" as the symbol for the divine trinity.

In the Middle Ages artists painted sometimes people with their feet in vases instead of shoes. It symbolizes people that have done wrong in society. With the feet in vases a person cannot run or walk normal any more, but must sneak like a thief. 
Emmanuelle works in a prison to educate the prisoners. She helps their minds to become cooperative. If a vase in normal position is a symbol for doing wrong, then the upside position becomes a symbol for right doing, as in this installation.

An old Greek tale: a student asks the master, why the Earth does not fall into the empty universe. He answers: "because the Earth rests on the back of a turtle". The student thinks for a while, then asks: "and this turtle is standing o what?". The answer was, that it stands on another turtle, and again on another and so on.....