The essential idea of NICHTS is the visual metamorphosis of simple icons, such as those used for signs, logos or index-signs. The colour red is treated like a protean mass of plasma, which is transformed into a variety of different signs.

And in this abundance of recognisable icons even the transitions appear familiar. The form of a droplet and a mass of points dispersing like star dust, signal the beginning and end of the animated sequence.

Through the narrative combination and the melting between the icons and pictograms, NICHTS inspires new links between them, and the elements are imbued with new meaning. //

Key symbols used in the animation