Apart from its evocative name and the polyhedron, this Melancholia shares little with Dűrer’s famed depiction of the gloomy Angel, personifying the melancholic disposition of the creative artist. Even the spatial situation is much more claustrophobic here. The polyhedron (double-symbol of mental clarity and alchemic transmutation of matter) is placed inside a womb-like hole (or burrow), shown in the cross-section. The present Melancholia means sheer terror, a premonition in the artist’s heart that his melancholic mood - under the influence of Sirocco winds - might soon pass into melancholic disorder. Vojin Hraste about his work featured at the 11th Triennial of Croatian Sculpture