Close-up video images show Ury's right-hand stitching the word "Boss" into the palm of her left-hand; the thin sewing needle, threaded with fine black cotton, does not incur any bleeding.

Röslein Sprach… the video title (trans.: The little rose spoke…) refers to a line from the second verse of "Heidenröslein", a poem by Goethe 1799, that Schubert set to music in 1815 and that can also be heard in the video. The song tells of a red rose, whose only defence against the attacks of a wild boy are the ineffective pricks of her thorns.

Tanya Ury

Your Rules 2004 is an artwork that incorporates a photographic image of the artist's hand embroidered with the word 'Boss' and a poster for Hugo Boss men's fragrances, in which a young man displays his hand inscribed with the handwritten logo 'your rules'.