spuren

catalogue number: hdv 2006.111.3
date created: 2002-2006
classification: installations
work type: installation
medium: engraved signs, dots and texts, gold leaf on rocks
dimensions: variable
signature and inscriptions: uninscribed
edition:
current repository: different places Steigerwald (for this project an app [for ios and android] is available)
current repository number:
collecting history:
related works: herman de vries has created traces of the same kind in the woods and mountains around Digne-les-Bains (France).

the first version of the Sanskrit text 'this is perfect. that is perfect. perfect comes from perfect. take perfect from perfect, perfect remains' was destroyed in 2006. The remnants were used by herman de vries to make 2 new works: '... it remains perfect and ... es bleibt vollkommen

comment: the words and texts: ambulo ergo sum | kein anfang/kein ende | infini rotas | sator/arepo/tenet/opera/rotas | no thing | ich bin in allen was lebt | ars vivens | chance & change | here & everywhere | all in one / one in all | natura numquam errat | ouroboros | pantha rei | perfect [sanskrit] | was/wieso/vonwo/wohin | to be to be | veritas existentiae | all | wu wei [chinese] | this is perfect. that is perfect. perfect comes from perfect. take perfect from perfect, perfect remains [destroyed] | different/identic | es war eimal | om [sanskrit] | here | natura artis magistra | be here now | every thing is all ways significant for all | ici | liebe sucht dich | joy
photo/scan: Lilian Seegers, Amsterdam/Katharina Winterhalter, Wüstviel/Eva & Wolfgang Aull, Eschenau
rights & reproduction: herman de vries