Dance of Death Haiku Zenga Photo is a "work in progress" and not yet completed.

The work exists as a series of photographs stylistically similar to East Asian ink painting.

Each image is accompanied by a haiku in German and English and statistical data.

The work exists on the artist's homepage:

The work exists as a calendar:

November is the month of the dead, with Halloween, All Souls' Day and Eternity Sunday. Therefore, the work is also exhibited in two churches in November 2021, embedded in a sermon cycle with studios and a lecture. Further exhibitions are planned.

The work exists as a book:

Fru (Beat Frutiger) grew up in Wabern near Bern in the graveyard, as it were. He is a retired art teacher and freelance artist and lives in Kaiseraugst. His "Dance of Death" was created during the corona pandemic of 2020/21.

Fru's art brings worlds together. In his images of the Dance of Death, he combines photography, drawing, body painting and Japanese ink painting.

The texts make unexpected and often humorous references. Medieval descriptions of the torments of hell are described as a "conspiracy theory of gigantic proportions" and #stay@home already existed in Boccaccio's "Decamerone".

Fru recounts archetypal near-death situations from his biography, and the phrase "that was close" appears several times.

The texts are full of transformations. Death transforms from "la petite mort", as the French say to the orgasm, to the final-definitive-eternal finish. "Everything flows", Heraclitus once said. Behind it remains the constant of death. "The only thing I can count on with certainty in life is death," Fru writes. And then he continues, "I could, after all, make another attempt at life."

Let's do the same, with fun viewing and reading!