FOURTEEN MEMORIES OF A RAINDROP
Hommage à Joris Ivens and Hanns Eisler, 4th International Sculptors Symposium in Davos, Switzerland, 2008
The specified theme of the Sculptors Symposium was 14 WAYS TO DESCRIBE RAIN – a twelve-tone composition by Hanns Eisler from 1942, composed for the silent film REGEN (RAIN) by Joris Ivens, Holland in 1929. > read more
More information on this theme can be found in the book by Theodor W. Adorno and Hanns Eisler, “Composing for the Films”.
The sculpture is the representation of a macroscopic photograph of a drop of water hitting a surface, magnified to a measure suitable for a person to see.
It consists of 14 scorched tree trunks placed in a circle, representing the perpetual cycle of nature. They are topped with bell jars in the colors which water takes on in its most varied forms: fog, continuous rain, a bog lake, a mountain stream, a lagoon, ice, a lake, the ocean viewed from high above in an airplane, rain by day, rain at dusk, etc.
One of the bell jars is engraved with texts on rain by Leonard Cohen, Janis Joplin, Pablo Neruda and Ueda Akinari.
The texts express the deep melancholy which afflicts some people when it rains.
Installation made of 14 scorched stumps with blown antique-glass bell jars with engravings. Installation size: H 165 cm, Ø 176 cm