Untröstlich (Fallen woman) Sculpture

A sheet of iron, no thicker than a coin, lies in front of a large hydraulic press and my cutting torch. It is as a block of marble to a sculptor or a blank canvas to a painter. I can see the crawling, sorrowful woman in front of me, her hands stretched forward in despair. I light the torch and sparks begin to fly. I want a strong emotion in the hard steel. And what is more intense than fear? Painful, but oh so powerful beyond imagination... I "met" my teacher for this work in a museum in Duisburg. I too want to show the emotion found in his images. I patiently work towards my final result. I sculpt with the forging hammer and paint with my cutting torch. Using heat and brute force I pull this inconsolable woman from a flat sheet of steel into the third dimension. Slowly, she crawls towards life. At the end of the day she has conquered the iron. My energy, my blood, sweat and tears have been transformed into the image: Die Untröstliche.