Mirjam Hiller

" The need for clarity, simplicity, protection, strength, and infinity drives me, I am looking for a form that combines all of this, a form that can be infected and worn on the chest, in place, As a material, I choose a metal that has fascinated me for years, stainless steel.I am familiar with it, it inspires me again and again and challenges me.It is a material that strikes me despite its hardness, its coolness It draws its strictness into the spell, because it can lead to unimaginable borders and because despite its relative lightness it has a great strength, the color comes on the stainless steel sheet, I need color, it makes me happy, it catches me, gives me energy , Intensity and depth, it's food, from which I saw a disk, a circle, or rather an oval much. Infinity. I choose the color, two colors. Combined with the stainless steel results in a tri-color. I bend this color down so far that I can work it with the hammer without it flaking off. Then I start forging. I forge the oval made of stainless steel sheet together with the colored one Coating. Certainly, but very carefully, I forge the disk, arch it up. It creates a rhythm. Slowly, the surface spans. She fills with strength. Each hammer blow leaves its mark on the surface. Every crooked shot shows, nothing can cover up. Everything reveals itself, deforms the piece, gives it something of its own. The shape, the curvature, the tension of the metal, the colourfulness - all together should create a force that invites the eye to sink into it, to sink into simplicity. I want to immerse myself in the oval, in the color. With a relaxed look, I lose myself in the space that has become the space. "