If you're wasting water, this shower curtain will poke you with spikes
Your extra long showers are ruining the environment and Elisabeth Buecher wants to do something about it. The textile installation artist can’t flush the toilet or throw cold water on every excessive shower taker , but she has found a way to keep people on a tight schedule: inflatable spikes. Part of a series of creations called “My Shower Curtain is a Green Warrior,” the Spiky curtain pushes people out of the stall if they’ve been in for too long. From the moment the water starts running , you have four minutes to do all your scrubbing before the spikes make it impossible to remain in the shower. An additional installation, titled “Trap,” offers a similar concept, though with double the claustrophobia. As the shower head rains down, the curtain begins to inflate around the user. If you surpass four minutes of scrubbing, the curtain closes entirely and traps you inside. It makes every morning feel like an escape from the Temple of Doom. Buecher’s installations play off the sugge...