"The outward appearance of every object I make is the equivalent of some aspect of inner human life. This [Rubberized Box (1957)] came out of my period of crisis in Düsseldorf-Heerdt and expresses my inner condition. My feelings then had this special kind of darkness--almost black like this mixture of rubber and tar. It is certainly an equivalent of the pathological state mentioned before, and expresses the need to create a space in the mind from which all disturbances were removed: an empty insulated space. Within this empty space investigations can take place, and from this concentration new experiences can emerge. This is a prerequisite for every experiment with the Theory of Social Sculpture: the principle of the insulator."[15]
-Joseph Beuys

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