„Little Moonlight Storage“ was created between the fall of 1992 and spring of 1993 while living in the USA.
When this artwork was created, I didn’t have a conscious knowledge about Yoko Ono’s early text based works from the Sixties. I only found out about these particular works when I stumbled across the book „Objects and Arias“ at the bookstore on the University of Maine campus in Orono, ME, towards the end of fall 1994.
Years later though, I realized I must have come across some of her early works already as a boy when I was scrolling through the German youth magazine BRAVO at the age of about six or seven, that my six years older sister used to leave sitting around in the family apartment between 1967 – 1970.

An extended text about sources and influences on my work is currently being worked out and will be released on this website once it is finished.

 

The black lettering instructional text was first revealed in 1994 on frosted, semi-transparent paper in Din-4 format. It was displayed as a poster in limited quantities in public spaces, particularly near public transportation stops.

The Imagination was also published in 1995 in a similar manner, but this time in Din-A3 format in public spaces in Zermatt, Switzerland. The poster display hanging action was titled ’12 Little Moonlight Storages for Zermatt‘. This title referred to the number of posters displayed that winter.

Shortly after, a larger version of this work was released, titled „Big Moonlight Storage“. The instruction text for that version only differed in size measurements. „Big Moonlight Storage“ is featured in the virtual online exhibition at the Alba.Imago.Museum, where it is located in open room space number fourteen.

The Sculpture of Thought was first displayed in 1997 as part of the Apart 23 exhibition in Basel, Switzerland. There, the instruction text was presented to exhibition visitors via a text panel mounted on a three-legged metal stand.

In 2013, artwork was part of the annual exhibition at the Pataphysical Institute in Basel (PIB).

In 2016, „Little Moonlight Storage“ was part of the exhibition at Petershof Basel as well.

 

Note: In recent years, the Internet Archive has successfully saved and time-stamped the original text of this work. Furthermore, the text of the imagination was sent via registered mail as proof of existence (POE) to extend copyright protection

 

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