Totenntanz triptychon – Artwork
Oil stick, pastels and gold leaf on canvas. each 30 × 10 cm, 2026.
Perhaps finitude is not only a reason for fear, but also a strange invitation.
This work consists of three panels, echoing the form of a Christian triptych form. Yet instead of devotion, judgment, or salvation, it offers a playful intimacy with death: three skeletons appear not as threats, but as musicians, dancers, and companions in the old and unending fact of human finitude.
In its own dark and tender way, the triptych opens a lighter path toward mortality. Death is not staged here as catastrophe, but as rhythm, gesture, and procession — as something that walks beside life, beats its small drum, lifts its thin limbs, and sings through the ruins. The work does not mock the end of life, but it refuses the heaviness with which we so often imprison it. It suggests that perhaps finitude is not only a reason for fear, but also a strange invitation: to move, to listen, to laugh softly in the presence of the inevitable.
“Let the sinners sleep And the dead dance.
And the bones shall be gathered And shall sing.
Those who awaken do not escape.”
