"Suicide Machine Sand (2013)", Museum of Sepulchral Culture, Kassel, 2021 (photo)

"Suicide Machine Sand (2013)" installation by Thijs Rijkers (NL), the machine is built in such a way that, over time, it can only sabotage its own function (a small motor drives a gear train which extremely slowly tilts a pan on top filled with sand which eventually tips and drops the sand into the gearbox below bringing the machine to a standstill), 'Suicide (Suizid) Let's talk about it!' exhibition (to promote public communication on suicide, Sept21-April22) Museum of Sepulchral Culture (dedicated to the issues of dying, death, burial, mourning and remembrance; the only independent institution committed exclusively to cultural and scientific standards that deals with the entire spectrum of the so-called Last Things), Kassel, Hesse, Germany