the Void [das Nichts]

This profound sculpture gives form to the formless, creating presence from absence itself. The piece explores the paradox of nothingness as container for everything - a meditation on how emptiness, fully embraced, becomes the space where beauty returns.

The sculpture's form suggests both envelope and void, a protective shroud that simultaneously reveals and conceals. Its surfaces appear to fold inward and outward simultaneously, creating spaces that hold shadow like grief holds memory. The material treatment evokes veils of mourning transformed into something luminous - darkness that has learned to catch light.

Within the work's depths, barely visible structures interweave - delicate networks that can only be glimpsed from certain angles, in specific light. These hidden geometries speak to the invisible architecture of resilience, the secret smile that forms when sorrow and courage merge into something unnamed yet deeply felt.

All umfassend kann keiner wirklich sein
Aber eingehüllt in Trauer findest du das Leben wieder schön.
Trost und Mut verschmolzen in einem Lächeln,
Im Inneren verwoben, so dass es niemand sieht

Das NICHTS transforms the concept of emptiness into sanctuary. It stands as testimony to the strange comfort found in accepting our incompleteness, the unexpected beauty that emerges when we stop trying to be everything and allow ourselves to be held by nothing.

For collectors who recognise that true fullness comes through embracing the void, who understand that the most profound strength is often invisible - a sculpture that honours both the weight of grief and the weightlessness of acceptance, the terrible and tender beauty of being human.

Clay with bronze and effect glaze, 24kt gold, base made of steatite.