Matthijs Homs - Huginn and Muninn

- Artist: Matthijs Homs
- Title: Huginn and Muninn
- Series: Golden Ravens - Huginn
- Material: Ceramic
- Weight: 400 grams
- Dimensions: 27 x 15 x 2 cm
- Documentation: Certificate of authenticity attached.
- Condition: New
- Shipping: Insured and registered shipment that is packed with care and attention as safely, sustainably and environmentally friendly as possible.
- Keywords: Mythical, Ethical, environmentally friendly, sustainable, 100% handmade, unique, gift, Norse mythology, ceramic, wall sculpture
- Each piece is provided with a simple and reliable hanging system that allows for several easy hanging options. An instruction is included with a clear and simple explanation. You can therefore choose from 3 different hanging options: (closer to and farther from the wall).

This wall sculpture is drawn by hand in the wet clay and then, step by step, cut with respect and sensitivity for the 'individual character', in line with tradition and craftsmanship from the natural material. Each piece is thus unique, has its own 'character' and is finished by hand in my studio, glazed and fired. No mass production, but made one by one with love and care.

The raven is optimally protected in packaging and accompanied, as seen in the photos, by a beautifully designed inlay, professionally printed on sturdy cardboard, featuring a personal Artist Statement, and the backstory referring to the role of the ravens: Huginn and Muninn from Norse mythology. The text is written in English.

This stunning artwork is an exceptionally original and special gift for yourself or for another special person who is very dear to you. It will transform your empty wall into an open-air space where imagination can run free and you can endlessly drift around in freedom...

Fun fact: a group of ravens is called a conspiracy.

Collect multiple ravens and create your own conspiracy...

Matthijs Homs - Artist Statement:

Through my artworks I explore and touch the boundaries between surface and depth, structure and spontaneity, dream and reality, nature and culture, self and other and past present and future.

Each piece I create is like an artifact of a lost civilization from an imagined history; a relic from a ritual that never took place in a dreamscape where the boundaries between fact and fiction seem to dissolve.

Driven by curiosity I engage with naturally and culturally charged materials and concepts. Accompanying and guiding them through alchemical processes I invoke a playground where space opens up for beauty, enchantment and contemplation on inner connection and silence.

- I am an Arnhem based creator and work across a wide variety of media, styles, concepts and materials. I let myself be inspired by ancient mystical traditions like the Egyptian pharaonic, Meso-American and Norse mythology. I create contemporary relics in which i make apparently separate elements come together. Through a wide array of media i reflect on thought models and systems of significance. As i play around with the different elements in a rhizomatic fashion i am questioning the fixity of 'things' and the significance they impose on us individually and collectively. I work rhizomatically, reflecting on the rhizome's open structure that is based on cooperation and interbeing; opposing and coexisting with the hierarchical competitive structure in which i feel trapped from time to time.

I graduated at the Fine Art department of ArtEZ University of the Arts in Arnhem, the Netherlands in 2018. For more info about exhibitions, contact and to see more pictures of the ravens and of a selection of my other work check out my website.

Website: matthijshoms.com