View worn on the body,
A collar with bars forged of sterling silver enveloping the neck tightly. Through the bars one can see a little suspended cabin which can move around the neck along a track. A glowing red gemstone peeks through the barred window.

I only realized twenty years after creating this piece, what it really speaks about.The Secret of the Voice tells the story of the struggle everyone battles with to find one’s own true voice – a process everyone has to go through in order to find their true purpose in life. Until then we carry the gemstone locked away in a hidden chamber in our throat.

Materials: Sterling silver, gem stone, rubber. 1994,
10 x 10 x 2.5″

Steel box with glass window harboring a shy furry one eyed creature. 6 x 6 x 3” 1998

View closed.
This piece is inspired by the Swiss author Robert Walser’s book Jakob von Gunten. It describes a person who doesn’t trust his own instincts and thus surrenders all control over his life to an institution. The institution is a school for becoming lowly submissive servants, one learns to remain a small individual.

Jakob von Gunten was one of Franz Kafka’s favorite books. It certainly is mine too!
Materials: Steel, latex glass, 1996,
6 x 7 x 4″

View door open.
This piece is inspired by the Swiss author Robert Walser’s book Jakob von Gunten. It describes a person who doesn’t trust his own instincts and thus surrenders all control over his life to an institution. The institution is a school for becoming lowly submissive servants, one learns to remain a small individual.

Jakob von Gunten was one of Franz Kafka’s favorite books. It certainly is mine too!
Materials: Steel, latex glass, 1996,
6 x 7 x 4″

View close up figure down.
This piece is inspired by the Swiss author Robert Walser’s book Jakob von Gunten. It describes a person who doesn’t trust his own instincts and thus surrenders all control over his life to an institution. The institution is a school for becoming lowly submissive servants, one learns to remain a small individual.

Jakob von Gunten was one of Franz Kafka’s favorite books. It certainly is mine too!
Materials: Steel, latex glass, 1996,
6 x 7 x 4″

View Close up Figure up.
This piece is inspired by the Swiss author Robert Walser’s book Jakob von Gunten. It describes a person who doesn’t trust his own instincts and thus surrenders all control over his life to an institution. The institution is a school for becoming lowly submissive servants, one learns to remain a small individual.

Jakob von Gunten was one of Franz Kafka’s favorite books. It certainly is mine too!
Materials: Steel, latex glass, 1996,
6 x 7 x 4″

View closed.

A helmet built to shut out the world during a process of intense study and development for an ignorant and therefore weak individual. This helmet features impenetrable steel walls thickly padded with wool. Instead of an opening, there is small room attached to it’s face, like a stage to display any object for study.

Materials: Steel, Wool, Filling 1995,
14 x 13 x 10″

View open.

A helmet built to shut out the world during a process of intense study and development for an ignorant and therefore weak individual. This helmet features impenetrable steel walls thickly padded with wool. Instead of an opening, there is small room attached to it’s face, like a stage to display any object for study.

Materials: Steel, Wool, Filling 1995,
14 x 13 x 10″

View close up into study space.

A helmet built to shut out the world during a process of intense study and development for an ignorant and therefore weak individual. This helmet features impenetrable steel walls thickly padded with wool. Instead of an opening, there is small room attached to it’s face, like a stage to display any object for study.

Materials: Steel, Wool, Filling 1995,
14 x 13 x 10″

View view open from other side.

A helmet built to shut out the world during a process of intense study and development for an ignorant and therefore weak individual. This helmet features impenetrable steel walls thickly padded with wool. Instead of an opening, there is small room attached to it’s face, like a stage to display any object for study.

Materials: Steel, Wool, Filling 1995,
14 x 13 x 10″

This sculpture is inspired by Franz Kafka’s novel The Castle which describes the hopeless attempt of a protagonist in understanding the workings of a mysterious system of authority.

The box which is constructed of lead, the sound-less and toxic metal, houses a complex system of rotating gears made of wool felt.

Materials: Lead, wool felt, plexi glass, steel, motor, light fixture. 1997,
8 x 8 x 7”

Close up view into the inside of wool gear mechanism.

This sculpture is inspired by Franz Kafka’s novel The Castle which describes the hopeless attempt of a protagonist in understanding the workings of a mysterious system of authority.

The box which is constructed of lead, the sound-less and toxic metal, houses a complex system of rotating gears made of wool felt.

Materials: Lead, wool felt, plexi glass, steel, motor, light fixture. 1997,
8 x 8 x 7”

Wheels which stand for motion are in this case arranged in a fashion which allows the suspended box in its center to only to turn around it’s own axis round and round. While trapped in one spot the box emits a persisting sound of a mechanical respirator. The ear horn insinuating a reaching out is stuffed with wax.

Materials: steel, tape-player, speaker, bee’s wax, 1996
13.5 x13.5 x 10.5”

Close up view with Ear wax visible

Wheels which stand for motion are in this case arranged in a fashion which allows the suspended box in its center to only to turn around it’s own axis round and round. While trapped in one spot the box emits a persisting sound of a mechanical respirator. The ear horn insinuating a reaching out is stuffed with wax.

Materials: steel, tape-player, speaker, bee’s wax, 1996
13.5 x13.5 x 10.5”

I constructed this ball and chain out of 18kt yellow gold which I alloyed myself. The ball holds a glass bubble in shackles which in turn harbors a down feather from my (now) ex husband’s and my blanked from our bed.

The piece shows how trapped we both were. But as we didn’t know of any other possibility we still got married.

I gifted this piece to him as our engagement gift. But in turn I did not want him to buy me an engagement ring, saying that the engagement ring was an invention of Tiffany’s, I’d rather buy myself something.

I constructed this ball and chain out of 18kt yellow gold which I alloyed myself. The ball holds a glass bubble in shackles which in turn harbors a down feather from my (now) ex husband’s and my blanked from our bed.

The piece shows how trapped we both were. But as we didn’t know of any other possibility we still got married.

I gifted this piece to him as our engagement gift. But in turn I did not want him to buy me an engagement ring, saying that the engagement ring was an invention of Tiffany’s, I’d rather buy myself something.