Dødens løfte, brist / Promise of death, burst
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Materials: stoneware clay, steel, milk, seed, glaze of ashes from cemetery trees and bone.
Where the fallen seeds are hiding,
waiting to sprout, burst,
held by the wells of remembrance,
nourished by past.
By the fallen seeds,
Let the milk drip.
Let the promise of death burst.
Bone to dust to seed to sprout,
born in milk and ash of the rib.
The roots of the tree lay deep in the ground, in what we do not see. In memory, in remembrance, in what came before, and in that we carry with us and pass on. They grow between life and death, darkness and soil, winding into a place where fear of death and hope for a cyclical life can coexist.
Inspired by the world tree Yggdrasil of Norse mythology, and drawing on the eternal yet transformative nature of ceramics, Nina Kraul Maegaard connects the tree as a mythical and collective symbol of life and death to her own death anxiety, exploring how a fascination of the underworld can live alongside the fear of it.
A central part of her process has been working with ash as a ceramic material, symbolizing life, death, and transformation. Ash is what remains after burning: both an end and a beginning. Collecting branches from the cemetery and bones and firing them into ashes herself, she turns this part of the process into a ritual that deepens her connection to the material and its meaning.
