B´reschit

The inspiration for this work comes from the Erzgebirge hoop turnery. A wooden ring with the profile of an animal is turned. The ring is then cut into many slices and the individual parts are further processed. It is only in the cut that you can see what is hidden in the round ring (see image 5/5).

The word B’reschit is hidden in the profile of the printed ring. This is the first word in the Torah. Correctly translated it means: In the beginning. Just as the idea is said to have been in the beginning, which was still hidden before emanation, before all form, the word B’reshit is also hidden in the ring, i.e. unreadable, unrecognizable. Recognition is only possible through the utterance or realization of the concrete form. For this, however, it is necessary to make a beginning, to make a cut, and thus also to be violent, because nothing can return to the beginning.

If we assume a new form of existence, a new beginning, a newly emerging, machine-based and machine-generated, electronic world in which entire creation processes invisible to humans take place, then perhaps there is something like a new beginning again. It is still invisible, everything is still hidden in the beginning. The ring contains conductors and storage media. In this way, it is also an information carrier, an information collector and also stands for an autonomous application of information. The idea of autonomous intelligence is still barely conceivable. And should it ever exist, it would very probably not be accessible to humans, in its hidden logic, with its own “words”.