The work Endling is an ongoing contemplation of the concept of “endling”, that is, the very last individual of a species, but also the final word, the last story, the forgotten potential.
The sculpture takes the form of a knot of coiled clay, symbolising complexity and interdependence: how each species, each living being, is woven into a larger network of relationships that sustains the whole system. Yet the knot swells, is pulled apart, and is severed at both ends. This interrupted flow reflects a sudden silence following a long chain of life. Its surface is smooth in places but uneven and cracked in others, as if the last creature to take shape here carries a prehistoric map of failures, possibilities, loss, and hope.
Deliberately placed low to the ground on a raw concrete plinth, the work invokes an earthbound perspective, a reminder of what most often slips from view: the small voices, the silent witnesses to our planet’s ecological history. The viewer must bend down, shift their height and field of vision, to meet the Endling eye to eye.
Endling thus stands both as a symbol of finality and as a promise of what lies ahead. Within its fragility resides an unfathomable strength, a reminder that even a single creature, a single seed, or a single idea can bear the weight of an entire future. It invites us to reflect: What happens when the last chapter is written? And how might we, in the cracks between what has been and what is yet to come, find pathways for life’s continuation?