The Golden Intermediate Kingdom by Bianca ter Riet

About "The Golden Intermediate Kingdom"

by Bianca ter Riet

About the artwork

The Golden Intermediate Realm refers to a symbolic space located between the earthly and the spiritual, between the visible and the invisible. It is not a concrete place, but a transitional area where identities merge, where opposites meet and find harmony.

In this realm, gold seems to be the dominant carrier of meaning. Gold here symbolises not just wealth or power, but the eternal, the sacred and the imperishable. It forms a radiant background reminiscent of religious icons and Byzantine mosaics, in which the human and the divine touch. It suggests that the one who enters this realm detaches himself from ordinary existence and comes into contact with a higher order.

The figure in the sculpture is right on the border: half human, half mythical being. The soft feminine features merge with an almost prophetic white facial hair, as if seeking a balance between masculine and feminine energy, youth and old age, mask and truth. The Golden Intermediate Kingdom invites us to see this ambiguity not as an opposition, but as a new unity.

This realm is also a place of transformation: like the twilight that is not quite day or night, or the dream that hovers between reality and imagination. It is a space where one can break free from fixed categories and reinvent oneself.

In short, The Golden Intermediate Realm is a metaphor for the liminal - a threshold experience in which the ordinary ceases and the unusual reveals itself. It is an invitation to contemplation, to embrace complexity and see beauty in the in-between. Modern Abstract. Fantasy

Conceived by Bianca ter Riet, visualized with AI.