public art
Playground Steffi-Graf-Park Brühl
2009
Cooperation with Naturspur e.V.
Three mosaic snakes accompany the watercourse on the mountainous playground in Brühl.
Various materials, such as tiles, glass, nuggets and pebbles, transform the snake surfaces into a haptic experience. The colour intensity of the material guarantees lasting colour sensations that can be discovered again and again from many different angles.
Snakes have largely disappeared from the "normal" everyday life of humans. There is something mystical attached to them. Shifted over the centuries in tales into the realm of "evil", snakes often provoke disgust. They provoke an argument in the non-rational realm. However, the snake is also a primal symbol with a thousand-year-old history of power, connection to the cosmos (Uroborous - the World Serpent), femininity, infinity of time. In old fairy tales the snake always leads to the discovery of injustice and need, to knowledge. Approx. 25,000 mosaic pieces of various materials, such as frost-proof ceramics, glass plates, industrial mosaic tiles, glass nuggets, pebbles, porcelain stoneware, were used.
With a total of 19 helpers the mosaic snakes could be realized in about 650 working hours.
The body of the snakes is made of wire mesh, which is reinforced and fixed with structural steel. This wire body was formed with a concrete mixture to the snake body, which was then covered with mosaic parts.
Snakes have largely disappeared from the "normal" everyday life of humans. There is something mystical attached to them. Shifted over the centuries in tales into the realm of "evil", snakes often provoke disgust. They provoke an argument in the non-rational realm. However, the snake is also a primal symbol with a thousand-year-old history of power, connection to the cosmos (Uroborous - the World Serpent), femininity, infinity of time. In old fairy tales the snake always leads to the discovery of injustice and need, to knowledge. Approx. 25,000 mosaic pieces of various materials, such as frost-proof ceramics, glass plates, industrial mosaic tiles, glass nuggets, pebbles, porcelain stoneware, were used.
With a total of 19 helpers the mosaic snakes could be realized in about 650 working hours.
The body of the snakes is made of wire mesh, which is reinforced and fixed with structural steel. This wire body was formed with a concrete mixture to the snake body, which was then covered with mosaic parts.
