While in Berlin I took some pictures in a gallery of an art installation upload download overload by Dolores Flores. I took pictures of Upload, Overload and Download for the Dictionary of Words in the Wild. What I didn’t realize until I checked the web about the installation, was that the little paper figures were significant. They are “beer people” and, as the web site explains,
The “beer people” were created in the year 1993, in an old Berliner beer “Kneipe”.
Made out of the paper ring that is attached to the bottom of a fresh tapped pilsner beer glass, to absorb the foam drippings. This paper ring was the inspiration behind the making of the “beer people”. Each figure is a unikat, torn, ripped and folded.
As they say, “Do not fold, spindle or mutilate”.