A piece of colored glass, worn by sand and waves, a solitary ear clip, only slightly dented, found
in the supermarket parking lot, a small porcelain bird that my pocket money barely covered—treasures kept in a self-painted wooden box with a lock. From childhood, I was fascinated by the magic of things, whose soullessness I never believed in. After all, hadn’t I seen people sink to their knees before shards of wood and bone stored behind glass in churches? Every object has the potential to become sacred. “Indeed, it is the arbitrariness of the sacred object that distinguishes it from all other objects used as sign carriers,” writes the anthropologist Karl-Heinz Kohl.
In this series of sculptures, I trace this magic, letting it slip through my fingers like the beads of a rosary. Since it is a creative game, and I would never trespass on the sacred, I call it ’semi-sacred.‘

Schrein, clay sculpture with semi-precious stones in black box, 30x19x6 cm

God/ess, Ceramics, wood, paper maché, 15x14x8 cm

König Arsch von Zahn, clay, teeth, 6,5x3x3 cm,
shown at the exhibition „Small things“, Naturalist Gallery of contemporary Art, Washington D.C.
https://naturalist.gallery/collections/small

Gesture, ceramics, 9x5x3 cm

Sculpture, ceramics, wood, stone, 25x22x17 cm

Die Geister, paper maché, 11x8x7 cm

sculpture, 7x4x5 cm