It’s important that these scientific ideas of material states provide the background for your sculpture. After all, nanotechnology and molecular biology simply mean that we are researching how material states and properties change in the macro- and microworld, i.e. exactly what you’ve shown us – hard at one end and gaseous at the other. This is precisely the objective of this new materials technology. We are already familiar with some products of it, such as Teflon, which was invented about twenty years ago. People suddenly discovered that material characteristics can be developed in the form of a surface from which water simply drips off. The same thing happens in space travel. In weightlessness, material states can be investigated which we’ve no idea of down here on Earth. We are, as it were, trying to achieve something in the smallness of terrestrial space which space travel has not managed in the expanse of the universe. We dive down and into molecular electronics, molecular biology and molecular genetics. This new world of molecular transformation will, as it were, become a companion of Martin Walde the artist. To my mind, this makes him an important sculptor of Austria, someone who can go beyond traditional three-dimensional form. In addition to extending his action, he also investigates how a material changes its state and develops it, just as it does in Shrinking Bottles/ Melting Bottles.