The vision, wall hanging sculpture

APPROXIMATE MEASURES: 45 x 60 cm

This ceramic piece is inspired by one of the miniatures from Scivias, the visionary manuscript of Hildegard von Bingen (1098–1179), a Benedictine abbess and medieval mystic. The image in question depicts how the physical body participates in the divine experience through a direct perception of spiritual light. Scivias, composed between 1141 and 1151, contains 26 visions accompanied by illustrations of remarkable originality and symbolism. Although the original manuscript was lost during World War II, a faithful facsimile was created in the 20th century by the nuns of Eibingen Abbey, preserving its visual and theological legacy.

The motif of the “body covered with eyes” also refers to the prophetic visions in the Book of Ezekiel, where the cherubim and the wheels beside them appear full of eyes—symbols of divine omniscience and total spiritual perception. This image is linked to the Tetramorph and to the idea that the Spirit and the Light manifest in multiple aspects that reflect the glory of God. The piece interprets this iconographic tradition as an allegory of the body as a sensitive vessel of the sacred, in keeping with Hildegard’s integrative vision in which matter and spirit do not oppose each other, but collaborate in divine revelation.