'So Now I have A Well If I Need One' - Lucia Luptáková (SK)
Wood, Plaster and Ceramic Tile
2007


A faint light from behind a half-opened door.
A bathroom.
Back in the shower stands a ladder against the back wall. There is a hole in the ceiling.

“Tell me, Mr. Wind-up Bird, would you like to see the well?”

It had been made in another age, long before the house was built. So, I thought, in a place like this, In the middle of the day like this, there existed a darkness as deep as this.
I took a sniff. It had a slightly mouldy smell.
The sound echoed in the darkness.

So now I had a well if I needed one.

Soon, my conscious mind began to slip away from my physical body. They were definitely fragments of thought but though that was happening outside of my consciousness. My mind was sucked into a pool of nothingness.

 (Haruki Murakami : “The Wind-up Bird Chronicle.”)


Production - Peter Distol (SOCO Amsterdam)