Moonlight [Mondlicht]

This ethereal sculpture captures the tender dissolution between guardian and guarded, between love and forgetting, between self and night. The piece manifests that liminal hour when celestial protectors descend, offering a different kind of embrace - one that releases us from the burden of knowing how to love by teaching us simply how to be.

The sculpture's form suggests both presence and translucence, as if carved from frozen moonbeams. Its surfaces flow like liquid light solidified, creating gentle undulations that evoke both caress and veil. The material seems to shift between opacity and transparency, catching and releasing light in ways that make the piece appear to breathe with lunar rhythm.

Delicate curves suggest wings or waves, protective forms that envelop without constraining. The work creates an atmosphere of sacred surrender - spaces where boundaries soften, where the sharp edges of individual love blur into something more universal, more ancient. Shadows pool in its hollows like night gathering souls.

Die, die Welt behüten sollen kommen und bei uns sein
Sanftmütig unsere Seelen küssen
Bis wir vergessen wie das Lieben geht
Verschmelzend mit dem Sein der Nacht

Mondlicht transforms the concept of protection into something beyond safeguarding - it offers dissolution as sanctuary, forgetting as a form of remembrance. The sculpture stands as guardian itself, holding space for those moments when we release our careful definitions of love and allow ourselves to merge with something vast and gentle as darkness.

For collectors who understand that sometimes the greatest comfort comes from letting go, who seek art that holds both presence and absence in tender equilibrium - a sculpture that illuminates the beauty of benevolent dissolution.

Clay with melted crystal glaze, 24kt gold, base made of steatite.