The die was already cast before your hand was raised

Ceramics again, I thought, the sort of thing for the hallway in a notary’s office or the window of a design shop in a gentrified hipster neighbourhood. It is applied art and the word ‘applied’ sounds suspiciously like ‘rejected’. But when I saw the work of Johannes Nagel, I fell silent for an entire minute, which for me, is the equivalent of a standing ovation.