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Sacred light, Finnland

2008

Sacred light, Finnland

Sacred light, Finnland

A closer look at the work

A pale birch trunk stands immediately before the viewer. Dark bark patches articulate its vertical surface, while sunlight passes through slender trees and a pale veil behind it. Broad shafts run diagonally towards the green ground cover. Fine upper branches draw a delicate network into the brightness rather than stopping it.

The foreground trunk offers a firm surface against the dissolving background. Proximity is readable in its bark; distance emerges through weakening contrasts. The title “Sacred light” allows a sense of exception without requiring a particular religious interpretation. The effect arises from a visible relationship: directed light briefly reorganises an ordinary woodland and makes its forms more intensely perceptible.

Format and edition details
  • Größe:
    • 90 × 60 cm, Auflage 15 + 2 AP
    • 124 × 82 cm, Auflage 12 + 2 AP
    • 167 × 111 cm, Auflage 3/5 + 2 AP
  • Jahr: 2008
  • 90 × 60 cm, Auflage 15 + 2 AP
  • 124 × 82 cm, Auflage 12 + 2 AP
  • 167 × 111 cm, Auflage 3/5 + 2 AP

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124 × 82 cm

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KI-generierte Raumvisualisierung – Sacred Light, Finnland. Vollständiges ungerahmtes Werk ohne weißen Rand; Orientierung zu Größe und Wirkung; keine fotografierte Installation.
KI-generierte Raumvisualisierung – Sacred Light, Finnland. Vollständiges ungerahmtes Werk ohne weißen Rand; Orientierung zu Größe und Wirkung; keine fotografierte Installation.
SACRED LIGHT, FINNLAND
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