The Vehicle of Nature

Mältinranta Artcenter 2020

Water is a compound that has made the birth of life possible. Looking from space, Earth shines out as a blue planet as most of it is covered by water. Likewise, more than half of the human body is made out of water. Leonardo da Vinci considered water as a kind of transmitter, or a vehicle of nature: vetturale di nature.

Water flows unseen in the canals of our bodies. The heart functions as a pump that maintains the organs. It keeps life in motion. Water runs through the piping of a fountain, finally splashing into the air. In a building, water travels from place to place through maundering pipelines. It flows through the roots in the ground and through subterranean pipelines. Sometimes water feels like a state of being, which fills both, the body and mind entirely. In dreams, water holds great power.

Connection II

Colored video projections and lights, sculptural elements, video of a heart

Infinite Spiral

Ceramics and concrete, sterilized hospital waste, pumping system, water

Portraits of Hearts

Heart angiographies

Fountain I, II and III

Copper, plastic piping, water and a pumping system

Aqueduct I, II and III

Heat colored copper piping