Do you like plants and have always wanted to truly merge into creation, then you will love the sandbox! Holiness in a Box.

What the kit includes

• Pilgrim costume of your choice
• Transport crate (with planting basin and drain)
• Drain hose + collection basin
• 6 individually packed soils
• Mini watering can + gardening gloves (surcharge)

Made in Germany.
Packaging 100% recycled raw material packed by Büro für Produktbeschwerung

How it starts
Choose a shaded and not too dry place for the sandbox. Use the enclosed pallet jack to move the transport crate. Mount the drain hose and place the collection basin underneath. Now you can open the box.

How you set up the sandbox
For a successful transformation process, the soils are individually packed and labeled in the appropriate quantities. Fill them into the planting basin inside the transport crate in this order:

• Drainage layer of expanded clay
• A layer of topsoil (+ a handful of Soil of Jerusalem)
• A thin layer of compost
• Islands of fine sand
• Mulch as a top layer

What happens
In our online catalog, you have already chosen the costume* of your pilgrim? Because now is the moment to gently bury the textile agent in the soil. Then insert the plants of your choice. Make sure to maintain a distance of at least 2cm between the plants. Give water once a week, simulate mist once a week. Dispose of excess water from the collection basin. Fertilize as needed. After 8-12 weeks, the costume has merged into soil.

Warranty / Disclaimer
This DIY kit was developed for private use. All included materials have been carefully selected and assembled. All questions concerning the resulting holiness are subject to clerical authorities and cannot be claimed or contested by the user.

Installation in a private domestic setting, August 30, 2025 – ongoing

Medium: wood, soil, textile, plants
Scale: domestic

sandbox pilgrimage is a cycle of works that links biographical experience to broader social and cultural questions. Rather than narrating identity directly, the project approaches religious affiliation and collective tradition as material conditions—shaped, inhabited, and negotiated through form, ritual, and use.

eidolon is a scaled-down iteration of the sandbox pilgrimage costume, reduced to a 1:3 ratio and conceived for the domestic sphere. Installed in August 2025 within a small biotope, the work exists as a fragile, time-based arrangement. Made from biodegradable bio-tech cotton, the piece is designed to gradually decompose and transform into soil over the course of approximately eight weeks.

This process of material dissolution is documented on film and will be presented in future exhibition contexts. At the original-scale sandbox installation, the transformation can be followed via time-lapse on handheld screens. The choice of media mirrors formats familiar from both contemporary exhibition-making and everyday lifestyle consumption, subtly aligning ritual, observation, and habitual viewing.

Realized with the support of Büro für Produktbeschwerung (Office for Product Complaint) and Eco-Care Recycling Solutions GmbH.

Image 1-9 Installation view sandbox pilgrimage at the Storage Museum Düsseldorf, 2025
Photos by Felix Adam

Image 10-11 Installation view eidolon at home in Cologne, 2025
Photos by Felix Adam

Image 12-14 Moods for eidolon, 2025
Photos by Liora Epstein

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