This design is not an autonomous work that uses an urn as its material: on the contrary, it is an urn to which an artistic design is given. The urn remains an urn, in its character as an object, its meaning and its function. For this reason, the work has no title. 

The urn is not concealed but elucidated. The raw, untreated wood remains dominant, and its effect is enhanced by painterly means. The painting is not decoration but a speaking image that encircles the urn without beginning or end. The image is about an open, transcendent horizon. Polarities are dissolved: between a boundary and unboundedness, between movement and motionlessness. Associations with symbols of piety arise, and are intended. The urn is more than a receptacle – it is a message.

The urn was made not only for this exhibition, but to be used – in the context not of art but of life. It is a practical item, and thus a proposal for series production. Or a suggestion for a series of unique items with further motifs that are to be designed. Because the urn is bound up with a human individual, and is one of a kind.