Stuttering is the language of stone (cry me a river)
2025
Lino print on recycled stoneware
185 x 160 cm
A ceramic relief of a priest in mourning collecting his tears in a tear jar, made by pressing lino cuts into freshly recycled clay. Inspired by a fresco at the Kykkos Monastery in Cyprus, referencing the myth of the tear bottle. Ritual objects without evidential proof of use, but in either way carrying testimony of human need to hold onto the ephemerality of life, where everything is always in transition of becoming something else.
The original fresco furthermore depicts an icon of Madonna with the child, from where the stream is pouring. In my version the icon has been removed and the clay has been left untouched by pictorial illusions.
Stuttering is the language of stone (the problem occurs when the fiction collapses)
2025
Recycled stoneware glazed with ash from graveyard flowers, glass from funeral candles and aluminium from tealights
30 x 20 x 12 cm
A cast of the supporting part of Berthel Thorvaldsen’s ‘Venus with the apple’. The part connecting plinth and figure depicted as a tree stump, where upon venus clothes has been thrown, when she had to undress for Eris’ revengeful beauty contest. Glazed with ashes from graveyard flowers, glass from funeral candles and aluminium from tealights, all found at the compost pile at the local cemetery. Materials that carry the ritual weight of loss, sorrow and and life goes on. Support structures that are highly important for the main figure to withstand, canalize and transform the pain of life, but end their function as trash when their purpose has been fulfilled.
Like the supporting part literally carrying the weight of the history with its main characters and all their emotions. Carrying so much weight, connecting ground with figure.