What's the most daring inlay you've ever seen? Did it consist of stone or fiber optics? Or was it made of intricately arranged or painted wood? Odds are, whatever it consisted of, it did not include a video of a writhing nude condemned to a lava bath.
That particular inlay-or "art installation," depending on your point of view-can be found in the lobby of New York's Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). "Selbstlos Im Lavabad (Selfless in the Bath of Lava)" was created by Swiss artist Pipilotti Rist. Through what appears to be a missing chunk of a one of the lobby's floorboards, viewers see "… the nude, writhing Ms. Rist against a fiery background. She yells self-abasing utterances like 'I am the worm, you are the flower' and reaches imploringly upward as if you the viewer were God-or a god-who could save her from eternal damnation," according to The New York Times. For a better perspective of the installation, see MoMA's website.
As for installing a wood floor over an actual lava bath: It is not addressed in the NWFA's Installation Guidelines, and we're pretty sure it would pose a fire hazard of some sort.
