St. Inbetween icons – Artwork

Oil paint, leaf gold on wood.
24 x 18 cm, 2025.

Based on the “Annunciation of St. Inbetween”, these icons condense the central chapters of her myth: the sacrifice, the persecution, the transformation.

The Saint of the Threshold returns in three small icons — three fragments of a broken gospel. Three images as three apertures into the life of a young woman whose existence burned between worlds. They do not depict a redeemed saint. They show one who passed through the in-between—and stayed there.

3 Icons of St. Inbetween is a triptych devoted to the Saint of the Threshold—a figure whose myth is written in smoke, water, and fire. The paintings borrow the language of medieval iconography, but the story is unmistakably contemporary: persecution, longing, transgression, metamorphosis.

St. Inbetween "Messer & Hahn“

This is not a saint who comforts.
This is a saint who opens:
paths, wounds, choices.

St. Inbetween "Kammer & Zeichen“

She accompanies those standing at the edges—between worlds, between selves, between endings and beginnings.

St. Inbetween "Augen über dem Fluss“

Her Legend

St. Inbetween came from a country of guilt into a land stripped of mercy.
Three mysterious women chose her for a path of signs:
the rooster sacrifice at dawn,
the nocturnal healing rituals in her chamber,
and finally the water trial—meant to end her life,
but instead marking her transformation into the Saint of the Threshold.

She watches over those who falter, who doubt, who stand where one world breaks into another.
A patron saint for anyone who doesn’t yet know whether they are falling or rising.