Pyschopomps 2023
Figures (variously) - burnished, glazed, unglazed stoneware
Bases:(variously) - marble aggregate concrete, blackened steel, onyx
1. Psychopomps 019S23 (left) and 020S23 (right)
selectively burnished glazed stoneware
2. Psychopomp 019S23
22.5 x 12.5 x 11 cm
3. Psychopomp 019S23
22.5 x 12.5 x 11 cm
4. Psychopomp 020S23
20.5 x 9.5 x 11 cm
5. Psychopomp 020S23
20.5 x 9.5 x 11 cm
6. Psychopomp 021S23
selectively burnished glazed stoneware, marble aggregate concrete, blackened steel
20 x 14 x 14 cm
7. Psychopomp 024S23
stoneware, onyx
17 x 5 x 5 cm
Across many cultures, psychopomps are the liminal, transcendental, spirit-entities that without judgement meet and guide the souls of the recently deceased to the afterlife.
The term psychopomp - most often encountered in mythological, ritual and religious contexts - derives from the ancient Greek word psychopompós (ψυχοπομπός) a compound of psyche (ψυχή), meaning ‘soul’ or ‘spirit’, and pompos (πομπός), meaning ‘guide’ or ‘conductor’.
Hazewinkel’s ongoing corpus of psychopomps ( currently numbering approximately thirty-five) blends conceptions of ebodiment and transcedence with approaches to human and non-human figuration mingling our proprioceptive, lived-in understanding of our ephemeral bodies with the slippery ineffability of spirit realms
Photographed by Giorgos Vitsaropoulos
Psychopomp 024S23 photographed by Jessica Mauer
