A rite-of-passage ritual. By developing these figures for the “Each reflection”-project from a year earlier based on personal interviews with living people over a long period of nine months a certain association or fetishism applied. The figures were created to represent the people they were based on and give them a voice, masking their identity. After this had been achieved the actual figures seemed to have fulfilled their purpose.
Several gallerists inquired if the figures could be sold, but selling them seemed exploitative and taking advantage of the project participants. To destroy their re-sale value the figures were “de-eared” in a ceremony in the woods.