This installation is born from the haunting imagery and critical lens of Forces of Form: The Vrolik Museum by L. Kooijmans—a photographic exploration of malformed infants, preserved and displayed in glass jars.

These children, never given a chance to live, exist only as specimens—stripped of identity, reduced to mere bodies without names or stories. This sterile exhibition embodies a brutal, inhuman exercise of so-called “natural selection,” where life deemed “imperfect” is systematically erased through human intervention.

The work confronts this chilling legacy head-on. It condemns the cold, clinical violence that denies diversity and enforces a narrow definition of “normal.” It mourns the silenced lives and refuses to let them be forgotten.

In response, this piece creates coffins and graves—sacred spaces to honor those lost souls, giving form and dignity to what was denied. These structures stand as quiet protests against a history of cruelty and a reminder of the ethical abyss behind human attempts to control life itself.

This is not only a memorial for the children trapped in jars, but a call to embrace all forms of existence—however different, however vulnerable—as essential to the fullness of life.

Through this work, the viewer is invited to witness the consequences of excluding diversity, to feel the weight of absence, and to confront the dark shadows cast by humanity’s desire for control over nature’s complexity.