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  photo: Carlfried Verwaayen

 


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