NATURA MORTA - STILL LIFE - STILLLEBEN I 2023
We grow, we flourish, we go through phases. We are continuously transforming. And so does the world around us. A flower sprouts, grows, blooms and spreads its seeds again — until its life circle repeats itself in this way.
The series consists of three individual art works. While all of them deal equally with the theme of „constant transformation“, each of the works represents a different phase in the eternal cycle of life and death.
Due to the materials used, the series can be categorized in the area of Arte Povera, a movement of artists from Rome and northern Italy from around 1967-1980. Typically, these artists created spatial installations from „poor“ and impermanent materials.
In the series therefore only natural materials were used: wood collected from nature, threads and cords made from wool and hand-crafted felt made from natural carded wool. Furthermore, the works are linked by a poem that connects the pieces in a wider framework - the cycle of life and death. The poem also physically forms part of the series. It was printed on dried tree leaves using a UV printer.
Suffering
A last scream in pain
Muscles cramping
It stops breathing, beating, pumping
A vulnerable being collapsing in the wild
Fragile bodies transforming into corps
Sinking into a soft bed of moss
Covering up its broken bones
Like a warm woolen blanket
It absorbs the life
We get told
Is leaving the vacated body
But in a way
It suddenly is dead no longer.
The bodies bones, skin and cells
Dissolve, sink in the earth
Like a seed sprouting in the soil
Coming into being again
We think of death as the absence of life
But are beginnings reliant to an end?
