Jan Meyer-Rogge’s “Slack Water” cycle
aims precisely at this phenomenon and its
aesthetic consequences—as do basically all
his sculptures. Three and more steel rods, for
instance, are positioned together in space in
such a way that the forces that they exert work
against and with one another to keep them in
balance. There is only one possible instant of
fruition, one single point that guarantees the
stability of such steel constructions. The
sculptures keep their balance in space,
supporting themselves on the ground at
only a few points.

They call attention to analogies—sculptures, for example, that focus on the point of
slack water, the point between motion and rest, and simultaneously the point of
maximum tension when forces collide and no direction as yet predominates.

Sechs Stäbe im Raum (Orion) 1980