Theory of the downwards facing fountain of happiness and impulse
by Luise Thiele

I made this folder when I was in my stepdad’s house, the house I grew up in.
I was sleeping on the little bed in the room he calls „guest room“ but it is just an extension to his room, so we can close the door, which is nice.
Anyways I am afraid sometimes he can hear me breathing, because I can hear him breathing sometimes.
When I secretly eat a little chocolate I really don’t want to make a noise when I open the plastic.
It is so embarrassing.
I am also still afraid he could catch me smoking a cigarette on the balcony and just be a little bit sad about it. It is like having a sleepover with my stepdad but with a door between us.
So when I was arranging the folder it was night and the crackle of the foil felt very loud, it was quite stressful.
Normally a plastic foil is a very casual thing. A grown up tool, a grown up way to take care of your documents. Every man in the world should be proud of me producing this specific sound of crackle.

In the pictures it is so small, that you cannot read it very well, but

What I had to say in there, amongst other things, definitely was one thing
about the theory of the downwards facing fountain of happiness and impulse.
I invented that theory.
I put the „happiness and impulse“ into brackets when I wrote it down.
So there is a fountain which contains beautiful colours, very nice, outbalanced colours, a very nice cold green, next to a berry, bloody red. And the yellow is carrying all the strings up, lifting them, letting them live. And then there is the Turquoise, my favourite one in this combination somehow, because Turquoise is just this one girl that has a bit of a cheap taste, but is very pretty at the same time. Also it makes me think of going to summer holidays somewhere, where they have a swimming pool. When they have a swimming pool, it’s often bit of a weird place.
Being inside of the downwards facing fountain, the fountain faces downwards, like the shape of a dress. After carrying all these colours the fountain somehow must be drawn to its own ground bottom, as she doesn’t want to ejaculate with a big gesture into the air.

The squared hat

Boxes, squares, cubes, rectangles, can contain a lifelike energy.

Even the most impersonal cube can be traced back. All that is needed is that we open the box, that we take a look into it, in detail, and we might find traces of the person behind the work.

Boxes are full of potential, as they don’t reveal an inside. They are a never ending display, a potential of fascination, not fascinating itself.

As a closed box is providing the infinite potential of fascination.

The cube becomes a mirror of the viewer’s expectations about the development of a situation.

Looking at the figure of actresses, they are never completely revealing on the screen, but once you trace them, you will always find a sign of what might be happening beyond them.

No one Leaves Delilah

Interpretive drawings of the tissue accordion, originally invented by Hedy Lamar pencil and coal on paper A4.

The tissue accordion was originally invented by Hedy Lamar (Eva Maria Kiesler, *born 1914 in Wien), a Hollywood-Actress, while beside that, she worked as a mathematician and inventor. During the Second World War, Hedy invented the „Secret Communication System“, which involved the concept of communication signals that were interrupted, therefore unpredictable, non-linear, which created the basis of what is Wifi and Bluetooth today.

The role of the princess Delilah in „Samson and Delilah“ brought Hedy Lamar worldwide fame. In an interview, Hedy said how much she despises the roles she is asked to play, that they would get more dumb every single time. The first ever played role by Hedy was at the same time as the first nude scene ever shown in the cinema. Hedy swims, almost still a girl, through a lake, stepping out of the water full body naked. She reported later, she agreed to that scene, because she was head over heels in love with the director of the movie. She did not get paid for this job, neither she had text to speak.
Hedy Lamar quit the Hollywood Career at one point and moved to Florida, where she would live isolated in a house on her own. She invented more and more things, while not leaving the house often and getting caught up for shoplifting. She was crawling inside herself and stayed within her own walls.
In these years, she would sign her works and drawings with the sentence „no one leaves Delilah“. During this time, Hedy invented the „tissue accordion“, the function of which is explained and documented on some abstract notes and drawings.

An accordion is being attached to Two boxes of tissues on each side. One Box is meant to be a storage for the fresh tissues, as you are able to just grab yourself one out of the slide. The other box works as a trash can for the used tissues.
When The body of the accordion becomes a divided storage for the fresh, as well as the used tissues, they mix up inside.

In that sense, the body fills with Plus and Minus, Positive and Negative and lets both energies slip through the air it blows out. This is how it makes sounds and plays melodies.

After living quite isolated, Hedy died in 2000 in Florida, losing almost all of her money she had made in Hollywood. The patent for the invention of the secret communication system ran out after 5 years and got stolen by a bigger firm.