June 2003.
Fresh strawberries, nylon threads, steel, raw sheeps fleece, plaster, ice/water, light.
Dimensions variable.

A room coated with white plaster housed this installation. A steel cage supported a 0.25 ton block of ice overhead. As this melted the water was absorbed by a carpet of felted raw fleece and eventually by the absorbent walls of the room. A huge organic mass of around 6000 strawberries suspended from transparent threads flowed from the ice overhead across the room to the carpet below. As the strawberries and the steel decomposed, their traces were also left on the carpet.

Viewers were free to move around the space as they wished.


Detail of strawberries on the first day of the installation process.


During the first week of the installation process.


Detail of ice.


Detail of strawberries after two weeks.



All photos taken by Claire Morgan.