Aletheia

Aletheia represents the necessary depths, the truths we carry buried within ourselves, and the quiet, flooding light that follows when we finally stop forgetting.

A meditation on how truth rises through layers of concealment, leaving topographies of revelation in its wake. This one reminds you how forgetting transforms into remembrance, turns into the moment when what was hidden becomes visible.

Its surfaces carry the tension between veiling and unveiling, curves suggesting both the weight of what remains buried and the tenderness of what breaks through. Light moves across the sculpture like memory returning, revealing different depths of knowing, different qualities of arrival.

Aletheia does not ask you to seek. It asks you to stop hiding. The transformation it holds is not the dramatic shattering of walls but the slow, quiet dissolution of everything you placed between yourself and what you already know. Layer by layer, forgetting falls away, but not through force.... through surrender.

What remains is not new.
It is original.
It is the first thing you ever were.Who wert thou among the stars? 

What was the colour of thy voice? 
I know thee still; 
and yet thou lookest at me as though thou
hadst never once heard the cosmos weep.

To live with Aletheia is to live with a reminder that you have forgotten something sacred about yourself — and that it is still there, waiting. The sculpture does not give you truth. It holds the space where truth returns on its own. In the quiet of a room, in the shifting of light across its surface, it whispers what the cosmos has always known about you. It does not let you forget again.

Every memory of who you were among the stars, every truth you carried, every colour of your voice dissolved into waters of forgetting. You arrived here empty. Not because the truth was gone, but because you could no longer reach it.

Wer warst du inmitten der Sterne? 
Kannst du mir noch sagen die Farben deiner Stimmen?
Ich kann mich gut an dich erinnern,
doch du siehst mich so an,
als hättest du nie den Kosmos weinen gehört.

Aletheia is the counter-movement. The un-forgetting. The moment the water releases what it took.

Mounted on Sölk Marble (from Styria, Austria, Marble of Gods and Goddesses)
Height: 36cm
Porcelain
Crystal Glaze
24ct Gold