Drops 4,567 Milliarden Jahre | 2012
Drops 4.567 billion years | Image installation former in the meditation room of the Ernst Lange-Haus | Glass picture with microstructures of the primordial solar nebula made of stony meteorites | printed on crystal glass, partially illuminated with LED and daylight, in lacquered wooden frame | Psalm 19.1 | 160 x 265 cm | After relocation, since 2025 newly installed in the Protestant Adult Education Center, Freiburg, Bismarckstraße 3
Drops - 4.567 billion years | 2012
The underlying picture elements - named “Drops” by the artist - are microstructures made from thin sections of stony meteorites, known as chondrites. These are micro-crystal structures, so-called chondrules, which the artist was able to photograph microscopically himself during a scholarship at the Planetological Institute in Münster in the summer of 2011. The fascinating special feature of these chondrules is that they reflect the gaseous, energy-rich droplets that were transformed into matter in a shock-like manner in enormous temperature changes at the time of the formation of the solar system. The forms are evidence and information carriers of the beginning of a constantly changing order of creation in which we find ourselves today, several billion years later.
These primeval forms are only found in stony meteorites, which reach the earth as unformed primeval matter - their peculiar shape is just as reminiscent of the cultural testimonies of ethnic cultures as it is of modern church window glazing.
Words from a translation of Psalm 19.1 are discreetly inscribed in the space between the walls to the right of the picture, poetically hinting at the correspondence between the pictorial structures and the observations of creation and testimonies to God in the Old Testament:
THE HEAVENS PRAISE THE RADIANCE OF GOD'S LIGHT. THE ENDLESS UNIVERSE PROCLAIMS THE WORK OF HIS HANDS.