Angels

A few years ago I received the wonderful commission from Germany to design a total of three angels: Archangel Metatron, Archangel Rafael, and Archangel Michael.

As I love angels and they mean a lot to me, I was very happy about this order – but it was not easy to discover and work out the expression of the angels in clay that was resonant with me personally.

And after I was finally satisfied and the angels were ready in front of me, the biggest part of the work was still waiting for me, because now I had to cut the angel figures apart in the middle, hollow them out and then join the two parts together again.

Archangel Michael and Archangel Rafael, with their total size of 100 cm, did not fit into my kiln and subsequently had to be divided into two parts in cross-section – along the hip cord and on the back side along the wing run, so that I could hide the joint reasonably well after firing and re-joining.

The two angel sculptures are now part of the group room of Walter Horn, a spiritual healer in Germany and a good acquaintance of mine.