Like the chimney of an industrial society, the towering metal column set in the square of the Treasury of Charleroi, Belgium, in its structure, form and ornamentation, inherits the glory of the ancient Trajan's Column and the Column of Constantine, which announced the birth of the new capital, while at the same time is relevant to the artist's self-identity and the writing of national history.

The written action is coded in a mixture of symbolic units and the symbolic red patina of the column itself, with the central spine structure, industrial objects and machinery, cosmic images and organic graphics spread around the circumference of the column. The spine is the central axis, the support and the center of life, so the linear shallow relief that unfolds to the left and right is like an uncovered skin, lifting the outer surface to reveal the inner structure and revealing the artist's own self-image on the second intervertebral disc, corresponding to the signature on the left.

Regardless of the form or the production technique, these symbols are 20th century cuneiform and contemporary digital coding elements, all vested in the artist's own symbol system, through which memories, stories and histories are recorded without reservation.