For its summer 2026 rooftop commission, Aspen Art Museum has invited Kerstin Brätsch to develop a site-specific presentation that places artworks in dialogue with elements of the natural world. The installation centers upon a new series of four sculptural benches, which are generated from the artist’s longtime interest in traditional craft. The artist often adopts artisanal methods, including stained glass, marbling and stucco marmo, and most recently mosaic, within her process, deploying these enduring traditions as extensions of her painting practice. Her ongoing series of mosaic benches build upon the artist’s Fossil Psychics (stucco marmo) works, in which painterly gestures become a body of fossilized fragments, as if remnants of geologic phenomena or ancient creatures. Kaleidoscopic and colorful, the benches are designed to accommodate growing plants within them, thus forming a vibrant living garden that will change through the seasons.