RUST AND STONE
are a wonderful combination
WELDED TOGETHER
December 2018
Steel and marble
175x50x20
The two figures communicate on all levels and are very connected to each other. One supports the other. The heads complement each other.
They just hooked up.
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Sold.
(25 % went to the humanitarian organization Plan International.)
DIVIDED WHOLE
July 2019
Limestone
25x60x30
"The Indian creation story begins without time and place, without yesterday or today. There is only 'the One' pondering the deep thoughts of eternity. The thoughts become the words 'I am! There is nothing else.' And by uttering these words, the One becomes aware of being completely alone and is overcome by unbearable loneliness and sadness. The One, therefore, divides itself into two parts, out of which arise darkness and light, sea and sky, mountain and valley, as well as the first human beings: man and woman.“ (from: https://www.philognosie.net/spiritualitaet/schoepfungsmythen-ueber-die-enstehung-der-welt#schopfungsgeschichte_aus_indien_brihatkatha_upanischad)
HEROES
October 2019
Metal and limestone
70x17x12 and 56X12x8
We like to put people on a pedestal. As soon as he (rarely she) stands on a pedestal, it is clear: He (rarely she) has achieved more or less lasting fame. Who will we put on a pedestal after this war? Who the other side? Who will be thrown get their pedestal? When I present my project to a 5-year-old connoisseur (I think his name was Paul) whose eyes are still clear, he says:These are people.
Yes. We're all just human.
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Sold.
(20 % went to the humanitarian organization Plan International.)
CONNECTION
May 2022
Steel and marble
30x45x45
It was an emotional act to split the stone. On the inside, the strong bond between the two halves came to light.
SPLIT
June 2022
Steel and Croatian Limestone
9x13x7
These two figures are inclined towards one other and are, in a way, ironbound, yet connected loosely. Both keep the bond in balance and are kept by it.
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Not for sale.
SET IN STONE YET HANGING BY A THREAT (ALLEGEDLY TEAR-RESISTANT)
September 2022
Marble and steel
30x20x20
One is so sure of so many things. Until one day they become obsolete. One is never aware of one’s luck until dealt a fateful blow. We don't appreciate peace until war breaks out. Everything in life is hanging by a thread.
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NO MATTER HOW YOU SPIN IT
OR
IT’S A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE
August 2022
Marble and metal
8x20x20
Especially in view of the war in Ukraine and its "justifications“ you can see how disparate perspectives can be and the destructive effect this can have. Both sides are convinced they are "right", a conviction that is distorted by the difference in perception and corroborated with lies. In the middle, there is death.
Sold.
(20 % went to the humanitarian organization Plan International.)
MAN-MADE ATTEMPT TO SAVE THE OCEAN
September 2022
Marble and metal
35x35x15
The infinite ocean. Healing, cooling layer. Life, color, movement, eternity. Attacked, endangered, polluted, poisoned. We do nothing, too little or the wrong thing. It comes back to us.
THE STAIRS
December 2022
Marble 18x12x14
What are stairs good for? why do we strive for more and more, create things, if we destroy them again? If we disappear in a second? Human hubris.
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Not for sale.
THE TRUTH BEHIND THE WORDS
July 2022
Marble, metal, rotating stand
18x18x18
Behind all the words, sometimes you can see the truth.
Sometimes not.
SAINT SEBASTIEN
August 2023
Marble, metal
63x50x30
Depicted again and again as a martyr for the Christian faith since the Middle Ages, he became an icon for homosexuals in the 18th century, and for AIDS sufferers in the 20th century, when the disease was still taboo (to be read in Stephanie Höllinger and Stephan Goertz: Märtyrer – Pestheiliger – queere Ikone).
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His wounds symbolize human cruelty, and he stands for the suffering of those who think differently, of those who stand by their faith, their sexuality, and are discriminated for it.
IMPULSE
October 2023
Marble, metal
40x18x18
The impulse results from the dissatisfaction in being.
One is inclined to let the stones strike by pushing one of them. Why?
Because we want to change something? Why?
Because we need to find out what happens? Why?
Because we can't leave things the way they are? Why?
MEMORIAL TO A GRAINFIELD
October 2023
Marble and Metal
A memorial to the grain fields in Ukraine which fell prey to the greed and megalomania of some few people, as a symbol for the terrible consequences of playing war.
A memorial to all the people who become the pawn of or fall victims to inhuman politics all over the world. When will this madness stop?
This art work evokes a grain field in the wind. A peaceful image. One might see as well people marching in rows like soldiers. Or it could also depict people fleeing from a war zone, bent by grief and fear.
EASTER IN TIMES OF WAR
March 2024
Steel and marble
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Is there still hope when the egg is being destroyed?
Can there grow something new?
Can there still be happiness where so much cruelty and evil was?
All these children, hurt, traumatized.
Is this our future?
When will this be over?
Will it ever be over?
Will we learn?
Are we able to learn?
Can we heal?
CARPE DIEM - OMNIA VANITAS
May 2024
Granite, rotating stand
18x18x19 cm
Confidence and hope versus doubt. The eternal dichotomy of humankind. What makes us human. Our burden? Our gift? Our mistake?
A COMPLICATED MACHINE
May 2018 - May 2024
Steel and marble
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A relationship that looks very complicated at first glance. Apparently easy to handle. Nothing of what you expected actually happens. You detect numerous connections, you turn around each other, but there is no rapprochement.
BRAIN WASH
August 2024
Marble, glass, metal
45x20x25 cm
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We like to close their eyes to the truth. It is so pleasant.
FLATTENED
September 2024
Marmor, Metal
63x18x19 cm​
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First comes chaos, creativity, freedom, imagination. Then the system. Then the order. Or vice versa.