SPIRIT-STONES
“This had to lead to an exaggeration of the symbolic image and a perception of reality that had nothing to do with the perceivable real world any more.”8 Like Giacometti, Sonja Mosick-Lewin is looking for perception instead of the concrete. Her goal is the conjuration of a transitory moment. Her Spirit-stones crisscross perception and reality: “Only after a long period of painful suffering was I ready to give up my idea of reality and give the ethereal space in my life. Step by step I learnt to accept and pay attention to these voices, signs, moments. In regards to my artistic work this was a long and sometimes slow-moving process of finding and creating,” said the artist.
by Katja Behrens
And further: The certainty that “the visible reality of life is only a tiny bit of what really is”, is underlying all the artistic work. This is especially true for the artist’s portraits of people called Spiritstones. The aura of a person, like the energy of a site, are embodied in stone. The artist explains that the gift of human beings flows into the lines and forms ideas that are the basis of the Spiritstones. For the artist, the direct contact with people is the inspiration and often the reason for her questions about closeness and distance. In addition it’s about understanding and the “contemplation about the sublime”3 as well as the “energetic cosmic order”3. Moreover, her artistic coping.