‘Umbilicus’ was created during a scholarship at the Casa di Goethe in Rome. The video shows a drainpipe from a public fountain in Rome. The video “umbilicus” is an analogue image generator. The flowing water displays remarkable properties, both visual and acoustic. At times it appears as a convex mirror, the entire atrium turned upside down, then electric fields seem to discharge in flashes and the water appears to solidify into crystalline structures. The whole system gasps for air, gurgles, rattles, then falls silent and begins to clatter. The video refers to physical experiences of the body, sometimes reminiscent of an eye, then suddenly becoming a tunnel, a passage through a hidden space. At the same time, it acts as a mirror of the environment, but twists the space and turns it upside down. The spatial experience picks up on elementary phenomenon and at the simultaneously suggests a primary or second reality that is beyond it. In all my installation work and the videos, I explore elementary and physical forces and I reflect on the duality of nature and culture, on the way we see and are seen, how we shape and are shaped.