Stuttering is the language of stone (cry me a river)
2025
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.
Exhibited at Den Frie Udstilling, 2025