Peter Land uses himself as a basis for his art, and here a fibreglass cast of his face has become the face of the sculpture. Likewise, the body is based on Land's physique - of course apart from the meter-long spaghetti arms and legs, which are lying across the floor, paralysed and helpless.
Melancholy and self-irony
Dressed in pyjamas he is sitting lonesome and dejected. He suggests, e.g., "Nemo" and other of children's universes, where the dream plays an important part as being frightening and fantastic. The too long limbs also make a tragic-comic picture of a state of lack of control, which also characterizes sleep.
A defeated man?
Peter Land uses himself and these references in a self-ironic and critical investigation of the traditional male roles, and how these are broken down in situations of loneliness, humility and defeat. He humorously insists that loss of control and clumsiness are conditions of existence in an otherwise still more streamlined and perfect modern life.
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