The carousel is set on a loop of very slow velocity, accompanied by a curation of music developed by Arman Naféei, the Kulm Hotel’s Directeur d’Ambiance. It’s eerie, stagnant, and edging. The piece in itself also touches on topics like pleasure, tuning into our own feelings upon expecting a lively experience, such as a ride on a carousel, and encountering instead an unhurried, perhaps anticlimactic experience. Carsten feels that as spectators, humans living, we sometimes dedicate our lives to the search for pleasure, in his opinion unnecessarily so.

By providing a familiar amusing element such as the carousel in a contrasting setting with differently set displays, once on the ride the participant seemingly becomes a part of the performance, which attributes to the beauty of accessible interactive art pieces. Instead of experiencing the expected with these sorts of amusement rides, one may encounter instead feelings of relaxation, meditation, displacement, and even peaceful enjoyment. The rich juxtaposition of colors and ambiance, along with the slow rotation, slows down time, your mind, and maybe your incessant search for pleasure. A true, real life time machine, and it’s pink.