The installation is part of a long-term series where the artist addresses displacement through the metaphor of turning into an insect and traces the process of a cross-cultural adjustment through a comparison with ancient rites of passage and archetypal plots of world myths and fairy tales. This particular work draws upon the metaphor of impalement as the extreme form of a symbolic rape, which simultaneously refers to the image of a pinned insect and to ritual tortures as a prerequisite for a transformation.