An enormous structure in wrought-iron covered and decorated with vegetation imposes its monumental presence, capturing the immediate attention of the audience. In the iron railings that give the demijohn its form, one recognises the distinctive patterns of fences and balustrades which can be seen throughout different urban and rural landscapes.

The object takes the form of a veritable arbour-sculpture; the manifestation of an idealised principle of complementarity and symbiosis between the natural and the industrial. The wrought-iron, an architectural element both functional and decorative, is charged with structural importance in the construction of the object, whose domesticity is denied by the exaggeration of its habitual scale. The vines – which envelops the entire structure of the piece in the shape of a demijohn –, highlights the connection between the object and the custom of tea drinking. 

Assertive historical and cultural references and allusions to the urban, rural, domestic and public reality work together in a strategy of appropriation, de-contextualisation and subversion of banality, transporting the spectator to a universe that challenges the programmed routines of the quotidian; a strange and simultaneously familiar world.