“The color deceives. Something tangible is happening here. Pink is the threat. Life hangs by silken threads. Two hands try to hold on to it. The title, a command: You 2 stay with me. We are just about to leave. The starting point. Every mother and every father knows the situation. Children love to pull away. In the confusing crowd, at the train station just before boarding, in a truly foreign country. Holding hands is the strategy. Slipping away is the tactic. Loss is the fear. Panic is the consequence. Control versus freedom. Safety has its price. So does freedom. Here are two hands, escaping two hands. A firm connection. The first imperceptible loosening. The grip falters. A slow, viscous sliding. A gradual shift into a smooth glide. And suddenly, unstoppably, the slippery soap shoots from the wet hand. It has just happened. One’s joy, another’s sorrow. The cries and songs still hang in the air. Like the grasping arms of an octopus, the tentacles of the abandoned, the lost hands now row through space. This piece of jewelry is a parable of life, a metaphor for becoming, growing, being, passing. For the bonds we enter into. It is about love and responsibility. It is about one, two, three and more. It is about ideas of form and order, about claims of possession and fears of loss. And it is about the fear of being left alone with fear, when one finally slips away from life itself. In this pink-colored work, our responsibility to grant freedom and our right to live in freedom is reflected.”

- Otto Künzli 2014