Hundertwasser’s Kawakawa Toilets

Hundertwasser’s Kawakawa Toilets designed and built by Friedrich Hundertwasser were his final creation.  I recently had the opportunity to take a look at these unique toilets which  are in the main street of Kawakawa in the Northlands region of New Zealand. They have become a tourist drawcard for the 1870s and early 1880s coalmining town .

Hundertwasser’s ideas may challenge you, but this is what he said of his work;

“I should like, and I do it too quite instinctively, to live an example, live an example to people, paint for them a paradise that each may have, he need only grasp it.

Paradise is there, but we destroy it.

I want to show how basically simple it is to have paradise on earth.

And everything that the religions and dogmas and the various political creeds promise, is all nonsense.”

The toilets weren’t the only thing he he did while in town. He also did some wonderful murals with quite profound writings embedded within them. Here are some snippets from one of them.

Today’s Question: How do you create ‘meaning’ within your own creative output?

Tagged with: Hundertwasser • Kawakawa • mosaics • public toilets

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