Erika Eiffel

Who is Erika Eiffel?

Erika "Aya" Eiffel, is an American woman who famously "married" the Eiffel Tower in a commitment ceremony in 2007.

She is founder of OS Internationale, an organization for those who develop significant relationships with inanimate objects. She has been featured as a spokesperson and advocate in a wide variety of publications, and on radio talk shows and television programs. She is a former US military member and archery world champion. She continues to compete at an international level as an archer. She claims that her object relationship with Lance, her competition bow, helped her to become a world-class archer.

She first encountered the Eiffel Tower in 2004, and felt an immediate attraction.

Her love for the Eiffel Tower and long standing relationship with the Berlin Wall are the subjects of numerous newspaper articles and television documentaries. Regarding the attraction of herself and other similar people to inanimate objects, she is reported by ABC News as saying that she and others "[...] feel an innate connection to objects. It comes perfectly normal to us to connect on various levels, emotional, spiritual and also physical for some."