Glass

To preserve the past, can be seen as a dangerous thing.

Flower book before firing..


After firing, only floating ashes remain..



The transparency of glass symbolizes the wish to be understood while its fragility signifies emotional vulnerability an apt metaphor for the passionate idealization and libidinal over investment that characterizes obsession. To be obsessed with the past or with the love object. To be fixated on what is unattainable or irrevocably lost. This is a dangerous psychological state, leading to melancholy, sophism even insanity.

(Taken from the Freud exhibition The return of the repressed: Louise Bourgeois)

My favorite piece form the exhibtion

Louise Bourgeois
THE DANGEROUS OBSESSION, 2003
Fabric, glass, stainless steel and wood
143.5 x 61 x 50.8 cm.
Courtesy Hauser & Wirth and Cheim & Read
Photo: Christopher Burke, © Louise Bourgeois Trust

The Dangerous Obsession, 2003