Wandering matter
The work cycle Wandering matter deals with the theme of wandering around, being a stranger and also anthropomorphism (perception of human characteristics in non-human things).
Erratic blocks or boulders are lumps of rock found in places that are geologically different from them. The erratic blocks are foreign, exotic, from somewhere else. Their terrestrial migration took place over long distances on glaciers. Meteors or asteroids float through space as boulders, in some cases they burn up in the atmosphere or collide with the earth's surface.
Particles from meteors, so-called stardust, consist mainly of carbon, hydrogen, nitrogen, oxygen, phosphorus and sulphur, the material that is also found in the human body. - Cosmologically, humans and rocks are made of the same material. In the book "Der Stein als Bruder" (Kassel, 2009) Károly Heinrich makes it clear how much rock is animated by the fact that microorganisms can be found in its layers. Inorganic and organic material penetrate each other.
Anthropomorphisms demonstrate what humans are part of: We are reflected in the environment. This perception thematizes the human being as a biotic factor, whose handling of the habitat gave rise to the term Anthropocene.
The broader the view in an empathic sense, the less something can be perceived as foreign and excluded.
Incredibly long periods of time can be read in rock. The Chinese scholar stone, known since antiquity, is a cult object of respect. The stranger, understood both as a boulder and as a human being, is understood as a metaphor in the cycle of works.
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