COMPANION DRAWINGS TO WE ARE READY (Series)
"The drawings are the nervous system of WE ARE READY. What is bound in the cocoon speaks here in pure line."
The 13 companion drawings to WE ARE READY were not created before the sculpture, but during its formation. Each time before a new layer of the 420 sqm foil structure was added, BECKER photographed the current state — the words, the symbols, the knots, the energetic tensions.
These photographs were not copied. They were translated. In concentrated reduction, black-and-white drawings emerged — not depicting the physical entanglement, but what each layer “spoke.”
The drawings are not documentation of the knots; they are resonances. They give individual layers a stage — not as material, but as states of consciousness.
Without color, without phosphorescence, without tape or plastic, the structural core of BECKER’s visual language becomes visible:
eyes, micro-figures, fragmentations, Rorschach-like symmetries, thresholds, portals. At the same time, the series marks a conscious gesture:
Not everything is loud.
Not everything is neon.
Not everything must explode.
Together, the 13 works form the mental radiography of WE ARE READY:
The sculpture is the body.
The drawings are the nervous system.
The hidden messages the DNA.
Series Overview:
1. ERSTES HERZ (FIRST HEART)
2. DIE WACHTEN (THE WATCHERS)
3. ANTLITZ DES WANDELS (FACE OF TRANSFORMATION)
4. IN DEN FALZEN (IN THE FOLDS)
5. HALLO? (HELLO?)
6. DAS TIER IM LICHT (THE ANIMAL IN THE LIGHT)
7. RUHE IM KERN (CALM AT THE CORE)
8. ZWISCHEN DEN WELTEN (BETWEEN WORLDS)
9. DAS STERNENTOR (THE STAR GATE)
10. DAS ERWACHEN (THE AWAKENING)
11. SIEH MICH (SEE ME)
12. WÄCHTERIN DER SCHICHTEN (GUARDIAN OF THE LAYERS)
13. DAS LETZTE TOR (THE FINAL GATE)
The COMPANION DRAWINGS are part of the upcoming exhibition BETROGENER TRAUM and belong to AREA 07 — Transformation.
Photography © Alex Wendler












