Golem Boneman
Golem Boneman is a monumental figure made of clay fragments shaped like bones. It appears as a being born from human actions, a golem, a boneman, carrying death with it in the form of insects and animals such as bees, butterflies and dragonflies.

The work reflects on the cycle of life, in which everything eventually returns to us. Clay symbolizes earth, fertility and life, while bones point to death and transience. Insects and animals evoke both ecological loss and the tradition of vanitas symbols: bees and butterflies as fragile bearers of life, crows and rats as omens of death and misfortune. These motifs recall the reminder memento mori, “remember you must die.”

Yet Golem Boneman does not speak of an afterlife, but of life here and now. It insists that the living world, human and nonhuman alike, is fragile and finite, and that we must take care of it.