ROSY BEYELSCHMIDT
Within Me Rests the Still Life of a Bottomless Vase · 2025
„STIFTUNGKUNSTFONDS“


4K color video, 2-ch sound, 7:13 min [➚]

Director · Writer · Photographs : Rosy Beyelschmidt
Writer · Sound · VFX · Editor : Dieter Beyelschmidt

Within me -
where no light falls,
where time forgets to pass -
there rests an image.

Not one I have seen.
Not one I remember.

It is a state of being.
A quiet arrangement of form and absence.

A vase, flawless in outline,
drawn by thought, held by silence.

But it has no bottom.

Whatever is poured into it slips away.
Whatever seeks rest cannot stay.

And yet - it remains.
Not empty, but open.

A space within me
that holds nothing,
and in doing so,
carries everything.

This still life does not breathe.
It does not speak.

And yet, it tells:
of a form that refuses to hold,
of time vibrating in stillness.

In it, I see
what cannot be named -
the porous,
the fragile,
that which remains
by letting go.

Perhaps it is a self-portrait.
Perhaps just a dream of containment.

Perhaps it is what Walter Benjamin called
an image that “flashes up
in the moment of recognition.”

Not to be explained -
but to appear.

And so it rests,
the bottomless vase,
in that deepest interior
that escapes the gaze,
and yet is entirely made of seeing.