The Ouroboros is a symbol that represents a snake biting its own tail. In mythology, the Ouroboros is an inhabitant of the primordial sea and stands for the motionless mover, for the origin of the gods and of life. In the wooden sculpture “Ouroboros” scientific and pre-scientific-mythological narratives are juxtaposed. The central motif is the origin of life and the interplay between microcosm and macrocosm. The sculpture is made up of over thousand parabolic wooden elements. These are arranged in curved stacks to form intertwined, loop-shaped ribbons, which are arranged in a fractal superstructure. Again and again, one band splits into another, narrower band. Each band forms a closed curve. Like a horizontal eight, the symbol of infinity, there is no escape, no beginning and no end. The repetitive fractal layered structure is the continuation of the material in its form. Wood is made up of microscopically small cells that accumulate layer by layer to annual rings. Material and shape form an organic unity. The composition, reminiscent of a snake-like primordial creature, is conceived as a kaleidoscope of anthropological archetypes, merging the structural and rational with the unfathomable and existential.