Flaschen turns the spotlight on the PET water bottle. An omnipresent consumer product, it is the object of investigation for an exploration of an entire range of contemporary concerns: drinking water, nature and technology, brands and waste. In 2010, the United Nations recognized access to potable water as a human right. Yet corporations continue to market it as a product, whose design reflects this commercialization in the bottles’ characteristic surface reliefs. Abstract renderings of motifs from nature and patterns featuring logo-like, figural, and geometric elements are meant to embody and convey concepts like life, pristineness, value, and purity or sell the association with these qualities. I extract the endlessly repeating patterns of the rotationally symmetrical objects with digital and graphic processes to obtain models for pictorial and plastic compositions.