Mounted on Sölk Marble · Porcelain · Self-made Matte Styrian Pumpkin-Seed Green Glaze · 24ct Gold
There is a kind of love that does not pull you out of the depths.
It enters the water with you.
It stays close when the ground disappears. It carries without demanding to be recognised for carrying. It moves beneath the surface, quiet and constant, holding life together in places no one else can see.
Murna belongs to the Mur.
She appears as a river nymph, a being of depth, movement, nourishment, and hidden transformation. In Styrian legends, water beings inhabit not only silent lakes but also flowing rivers. They are mysterious and beautiful, protective and dangerous. Because water does not only soothe us.
Water changes us.
A river never carries by standing still. It carries through movement. By receiving what enters it and continuing forward. By passing through darkness, stone, cities, roots, and open land without losing the memory of where it came from.
Murna carries this intelligence in her body.
She represents a love that nourishes without possessing. A love that protects without turning protection into captivity. A love that understands that holding someone does not mean preventing them from changing.
Her matte green glaze was developed in the colour of Styrian pumpkin-seed oil. Dark, earthy, and organic. It does not reflect the world back immediately. It asks the eye to remain. To move closer. To notice the depth that only reveals itself through attention.
The gold behaves differently on her surface.
It does not sit above the body as decoration or brilliance. It merges with the glaze and becomes muted, almost hidden. Not a light placed upon her, but a light arising from within.
This is the quiet radiance Murna carries.
The kind that does not announce itself. The kind that remains when no one is watching. The kind that continues to nourish life beneath the visible surface.
We often think love must be proven through intensity.
Through grand declarations. Through sacrifice that can be witnessed. Through constant closeness.
But some of the deepest love moves like groundwater.
Invisible, patient, and essential.
It is the person who stays present without taking over. The care that gives without creating debt. The tenderness that allows grief to flow instead of demanding that it disappear.
Murna reminds us that feeling deeply is not the same as drowning.
Water becomes dangerous when it is denied a path. Emotion becomes unbearable when it is forced to remain still. What moves can transform. What is allowed to flow can carry us somewhere new.
Her marble base gives weight to this movement.
Sölk marble, formed within the Austrian landscape over immense stretches of time, becomes the ground beneath a being who belongs to the river. Stone and water. Permanence and change. Two forces that appear opposite, yet have shaped one another since the beginning.
To live with this piece is to live with a reminder that your depth is not a burden.
That care does not need to be loud to be powerful.
That darkness can carry light without ceasing to be dark.
Murna holds the love that stays beneath you while you change.
The love that nourishes.
The love that remembers.
The love that carries you forward without asking you to remain who you were.
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