Solarstorm [Sonnensturm]

This transcendent sculpture in bone china porcelain and real gold captures the paradox of celestial violence transformed into silence. The piece manifests that exquisite tension between inner tempest and outer stillness, between the stars we gather in darkness and the fire that resurrects them.

The sculpture's bone china body achieves an almost impossible translucency - its pristine white surface interrupted by veins of palest blue that surge through the form like frozen lightning, like the memory of storms. These azure currents map the paths of internal turbulence, while the porcelain's inherent luminosity suggests the quiet that waits beneath all fury. The material's delicate strength perfectly embodies the poem's "beautiful being" - fragile yet resilient, ethereal yet enduring.

Real gold traces constellations across the surface, marking the places where dead stars have been tenderly collected and reborn. These golden eruptions appear to bloom from within the porcelain itself, as if the sculpture's core burns with solar fire. The interplay between cool blue shadows and warm golden light creates a visual storm that somehow resolves into profound peace.

Verirr dich nicht im Schmerz du wunderschönes Wesen
Alles was in dir stürmt will nurmehr schweigen
Was tust du denn jede Nacht im Traum ?
Sammelst erloschene Sterne, damit sie in der Glut aufblühen

Sonnensturm transforms bone china's ancient alchemy - earth, bone, and fire - into a meditation on resurrection. The porcelain's milk-white glow holds both the silence storms seek and the furnace where stars bloom again. Each viewing angle reveals new relationships between tempest and calm, between the gold's solar radiance and the blue's lunar cool.

For collectors who understand that beauty often emerges from turbulence, who recognise the sacred work of gathering what seems lost and offering it to the flames - a sculpture that holds both storm and silence in perfect, precious balance.

China bone porcelain with white and blue glaze, 24kt gold, base made of steatite.