ANIMA, THE WORLD SOUL (Satis Shroff)

ANIMA, THE WORLD SOUL (Satis Shroff)

My friend Thomas Rees, a wooden sculptor, has taken up a new theme to make a series for a theme path in the Kappler Valley: Humans, Time and Earth in the environs of Freiburg-Kappel as well as the biosphere area of the Black Forest.

It’s a project of Freiburg city dealing with its people, their stories, culture, Nature and environment. The above mentioned are the themes of the sculpture series, One of them is ‘Anima mundi,’ which is depicted below.

 Anima means breath, wind, respiration, soul, mind, a being endowed with a soul and life. Mundi means the world.

You find the concert of world-soul in different religions and nature philosophical currents. The soul is shown as the principle of life and movement of the individual human being, and is related to the entire cosmos.

The world soul, Weltseele, is the mind principle which forms the entire world and the cosmos, brings to life together.

In the figure of Anima Mundi stands 4,20 meteres tall, which Thomas Rees has created out of a 200 year old Eichenholz. It is a thousand year depiction of the world soul in the form of a strong female with wild hair and flowing garb.  She holds the flute in one hand and possesses wild flowing hair. Her crown is a circle of musical pipes which captures the invisible wind and makes it sing. The sound sets the surroundings in motion and represents the manifested activity of the world soul, which penetrates all—just like the universe on Earth and connects with it Nature and humans inseparably.