© NELE STRÖBEL

Meditation garden Neubiberg: Flottierend*e Stel(l)en (Floating steles)

Installed in 2004

This spacial work consists of two freely modeled, four-part steles.
The segments have convex and concave curved forms which float freely around a central axis. Their form is inspired by the cholla cactus, which grows in the California desert.

*"flottierend" - or "floating" - because the ceramic material seems to have frozen while in movement. It spreads out both horizontally and vertically as if it could still move or be modeled. In this sense, "flottierend" embodies the state of the material before and during its transformation into a sculpture.