Peeing Human
Modern bathrooms with sterile white tiles and glaring lights aim to hide any trace of dirt, dust, pubic hair, and urine, treating them as unwelcome intruders. Cleanliness is prioritised over the process of cleansing. Peeing Human’ challenges our spiritual disconnect from our bodies, reimagining bathrooms as spaces for deeper introspection.
This pee fountain portrays our internal organs as a reversion of our external sewage system. Artistic representations of organs, crafted from clay, metal, and glass, capture the journey of fluids travelling through our bodies to eventually become urine.
“Peeing Human” suggests an alternative future where we embrace our bodies and their excretions, rather than letting taboos and shame rule our surroundings.
Dim: 200cm x 150cm x 178cm
Interview with visual art journal: https://visualartjournal.com/2024/12/14/jolien-muller/
WATER TO PEE
A transparent glistening bodiless entity
Passes through my body to bring me clarity
It runs down this gateway to my centre
A soothing flood that takes you to the human venter
Liquid wind breathing through my middle
Encapsulating all my worries in the piddle
Our body is trying to flush
What our minds cannot hush
Crawling and inching until we reach
the filtration of unease
Intertwined ways where thoughts are crossing
And your being is revealed in the offing
United in a sac filled with foreknowledge and particulars
Once filled it squeezes through in singular
As it leaves my body
This transparent glistening bodiless entity
has turned into pee
Passes through my body to bring me clarity
It runs down this gateway to my centre
A soothing flood that takes you to the human venter
Liquid wind breathing through my middle
Encapsulating all my worries in the piddle
Our body is trying to flush
What our minds cannot hush
Crawling and inching until we reach
the filtration of unease
Intertwined ways where thoughts are crossing
And your being is revealed in the offing
United in a sac filled with foreknowledge and particulars
Once filled it squeezes through in singular
As it leaves my body
This transparent glistening bodiless entity
has turned into pee