Wormwood Star Natural stone, glass, concrete, wood. 2024 These are the hands of the Lord. The Lord protects us from the star with sharp rays, the Wormwood Star. Wormwood is bitter; wormwood is poisonous. Wormwood is a universal biblical symbol of suffering and bitterness. It is also a symbol of punishment. Thus says the Lord of Hosts, the God of Israel: I will feed this people with wormwood and give them poisonous water to drink. (Jeremiah 9:15) John the Evangelist writes about wormwood in the Apocalypse, mentioning "a star burning like a lamp." A great star, called Wormwood, falls from heaven and poisons a third of the rivers and springs of water. (Revelation 8:10-11) John refers to wormwood as aívelov (apsintion), meaning "not fit for drinking" or simply bitter. In the novel by the Strugatsky brothers, "The Devil Among People," the town of Wormwood is Chernobyl. Its waters are poisoned; its waters are bitter. But it is not only the dead water that is bitter. The poisoned leaves are bitter. The poisonous wind is bitter. Poison is everywhere and in everything, in our bodies and in our hair. We are all fragile and helpless before the shards of the Wormwood Star.
Selfportrait
Glass, concrete. 2024 53 x 23 sm
Untitled
Glass, stone, concrete, wood panel. 2024 Each panel 40 x 30 sm approximately
