Every artistic object refers to its maker's existence, is a trace that indicates: Someone was here and left something behind. Traces of manipulation on its surface - in this case traces on the metal that are at the same time the maker's signature: Delicate inscriptions and perforations in the silver. On the surface of a bowl a blood-red fingerprint. A bowl as a fingerprint. Two black lines that cross and stop abruptly, dramatically cut into a vessel that seem to divide it but also hold it together. Paths of life. Development direction.

The metal works of silversmith Simone Ten Hompel can be approached and observed by many ways: visually, tangibly, affectively and intellectually. The use and function of these objects are an intension but are not necessarily in the foreground.

Extract of the German text "Deutung und Bedeutung" (Interpretation and Meaning) by Dr. Barbara Maas, 2008