The work was created during a specific project at the Regional Council Stuttgart. The task was to motivate employees to participate in an idea competition where they were supposed to develop proposals for greater resource efficiency. Countless discarded personal computers, keyboards, and mice, which had to be disposed of due to a release change, were dismantled into their components. The fragments were then assembled into colorful material collages on canvases and painting boards, showcasing their seemingly endless variety of shapes.

Through artistic recycling, the disposal of old computers was addressed. This issue is more than just a problem; it is a scandal. Ultimately, electronic waste often ends up illegally in Toxic City, as the Agbogbloshie district of Accra, the capital of Ghana, is now called. It is a dirty business in every sense. European shippers illegally transport computer waste to Africa, where it is disposed of. Toxic heavy metals contaminate people, including many children and teenagers, the soil, the rivers, and everything that lives in them, while traders make a fortune.

A large portion of the computer waste originates from Germany. This is also because, in our comfortable world of prosperity and growth, we constantly need a new operating system and new office software, which essentially does the same thing as the old one but is acquired because the old one is allegedly no longer modern or powerful enough. Often, new computers are also needed because the old ones can no longer provide the required resources of memory and speed. This production and consumption behavior is based on the market principle of planned and psychological "obsolescence," which means deliberately making a product obsolete over time so that it can be consumed anew. (Obsolescence, as in obsolete, outdated, superfluous). It forms the basis of our absurd consumption- and growth-oriented economic system.

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