Traum im seidenen Netz

Traum im seidenen Netz connects two states of dreaming: the dream of sleep, whose images begin to disintegrate upon waking, and the life dream, which must be preserved and pursued over time in waking consciousness. Both rely on a form of holding – not as rigid fixation, but as a flexible structure that allows change.

Against a golden-yellow ground, wine-red and violet lines intersect. They stretch diagonally across the surface, gather into a dense weave in the lower part of the image and open again elsewhere. Vertical traces pass through these directed movements; pale passages, residues of colour and interruptions remain visible between the connections. The net does not appear as a closed order, but as a structure whose capacity to bear arises precisely from the alternation between density and openness.

Silk combines an almost weightless appearance with high tensile strength. This material tension carries the title: a dream can endure only when it is held – firmly enough not to be lost amid changing experience, and openly enough not to harden under its own definition. For the dream of sleep, this means preserving fragments beyond waking. For the life dream, it means giving direction to an inner vision even when its final form cannot yet be experienced.