Hand Benedikt
Nature as sculpture
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The sculptural work consists of a 90 cm-long apple tree trunk, whose form and surface structure — with bark, cut marks, and growth traces — evokes the image of a large, hanging hand. As an objet trouvé, the found piece has neither been artificially shaped nor stylized, but carefully preserved in its original expression and transferred into a new context of meaning. In the entrance area — the “paradise” of the newly built youth center — the natural object becomes a sign: a gesture in space, suggesting openness, invitation, and protection. Its sculptural presence arises from the tension between found object and form, between natural growth and architectural context. The work oscillates between readymade and religious symbol — a quiet emblem in the space that raises questions of origin, transformation, and presence. Imke Woelk |
