TRAPDOOR OF TIME
February 9, 2009
Trapdoor of Time
Jan Lauda, 2002
Nearly 11 years after the removal of Tank No. 23 Jan Lauda installed his fountain at Kinskych Square. The fountain consists of 64 nozzles, 24 of which have a special bubbling feature in order to create peculiar water streams which shoot 8 meters high. 40 lights illuminate it at night as the performance is computer controlled.
The fountain’s architectural structure itself is a cracked rock—two granite slabs symbolizing the trapdoor of time that devours all deeds of man. Spouting water purges all and lets one forget.
Lauda intended on the fountain to wash away the nightmare memories of Communism although not everyone was soon to forget Tank No. 23 and the square’s connection with oppression in their country.
Jan Lauda, 2002
Nearly 11 years after the removal of Tank No. 23 Jan Lauda installed his fountain at Kinskych Square. The fountain consists of 64 nozzles, 24 of which have a special bubbling feature in order to create peculiar water streams which shoot 8 meters high. 40 lights illuminate it at night as the performance is computer controlled.
The fountain’s architectural structure itself is a cracked rock—two granite slabs symbolizing the trapdoor of time that devours all deeds of man. Spouting water purges all and lets one forget.
Lauda intended on the fountain to wash away the nightmare memories of Communism although not everyone was soon to forget Tank No. 23 and the square’s connection with oppression in their country.
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