Within the gallery a large, rotatable artwork dominated the exhibition room's interior. This work had been created not long after attending a solstice event held in the central city of Zürich. With thousands of others a friend and I watched on as a three meter high snowman-like figure named "der Böögg" was set fire to by horse-riding representatives from the city´s worker guilds. Some short time into the burning, and to both of our great surprise, der Böögg´s medicine-ball-shaped head exploded with a most deafening, thunderous bang. Returning home that evening and trying to make sense of what I had witnessed, I was again shocked to discover that the word "Böögg", whose historical meaning is reputedly lost in contemporary Zürich, is in fact derived from its 15th century usage, where it was said to describe an individual who in the winter months of each year would be wrapped in cloths and rags and was known to do little more than bother the children and beg for money and food. In burnt paper I tried to depict der Böögg in his last moments, alone at the top of his bonfire.