The impetus for the creation of the sculptural group is the poem “Drohung” by Gottfried Benn. The initially seemingly harmonious scene is dissolved at the moment when the creatures become aware of their lack of wholeness. It is a sculptural shaping of a state of incongruity in which a threat quietly takes effect.
Threat
But know this:
I live animal days. I am a water hour.
In the evening my eyelid sleeps like forest and sky.
My love knows few words:
Your blood is so beautiful.
(Gottfried Benn, Sämtliche Gedichte, p.22, Klett-Cotta, Sixth Edition, 2006)
Further information about the artist: www.bildhauerei-thuemmel.de
Kornelia Thümmel: Animal Days