# No. 10 – Singularity

Light against darkness around a black hole. Single white spikes hold out against the pull, the last trace of a hidden energy.

- **Completed:** February 17, 2024
- **Size:** 71 × 71 × 10 cm
- **Edition:** Unique paper artwork
- **Material:** Colored paper 120 g/m²
- **Substrate:** BRAMANTE Blackboard, 2200 g/m², 71 × 71 × 0.3 cm
- **Frame:** black lacquered oak wood
- **Parts:** 360 pyramids
- **Price:** sold

“Singularity” is a paper sculpture symbolizing the competition between light and darkness, centered around a mysterious black hole.

The sharp, black spikes incline in strict symmetry from the center outward, as if being swallowed by the gravity of darkness. At the same time, individual white spikes break through the order, like rays of light fighting against the infinite pull of darkness.

The work represents the balance between these two primal forces – as if light is being swallowed by darkness, yet never completely. The white spikes function as the last traces of a hidden energy that glows in the midst of darkness and radiates hope.

## Images

![The framed black work head-on against a white wall, the spikes circling a black hole](https://larigami.de/_astro/1.DOP7YSMz_1v8F4B.webp)

![The work from the side, the spikes reaching far past the frame on the left](https://larigami.de/_astro/3.BarCMJOU_Zlp9qG.webp)

![Close-up of the centre, the funnel of spikes leading into a black hole](https://larigami.de/_astro/5.WZvCiqf4_1DRpo3.webp)

![Detail, single tips showing their white inner face between the black surfaces](https://larigami.de/_astro/7.CLxarb32_Zj00en.webp)

![The framed work in a grey living room next to a wall of windows](https://larigami.de/_astro/10.gUUM5AMi_2pWhiC.webp)

![The technical section drawing of the work above a photograph of the finished relief](https://larigami.de/_astro/11.DEnJc-kh_ZFGeKL.webp)

![The framed work at an angle from the side, the spikes standing deep out of the frame](https://larigami.de/_astro/6.DviOjzN3_Z203AKJ.webp)

![Raking light on the spikes, bright edges tracing the turn of the vortex](https://larigami.de/_astro/9.BBSnro5b_ZSibY2.webp)

## Videos

- [The camera travelling along the black vortex, light moving across the tips](https://cdn.larigami.de/videos/artworks/10/a.mp4)

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