Scratch, cut, squeeze, press, pull.

The form is still. What was once fluid is now fixed.

The inanimate shapes preserve the traces of past acts of experimentation, investigation, and discovery. Their peculiarities resist recognition; they reveal little of what they depict and instead point back to the gestures that brought them into being.

They stand for nothing beyond themselves.

Objects of desire, carrying the traces of their own making. Temptation captured in form. Fetishized, elevated, and made sacred.

photos © Raphael Fischer-Dieskau