The "Closeness of God" series combines three sets of Köder's images: The Promise, The Invitation, The Closeness of God. 

There is complete synergy between Fr Köder being a priest and an artist. He uses his paintings as Jesus used his parables. He “reveals” the depth of the Christian message through metaphors, shedding light and colour on life and human history. Köder's art is heavily charged with his personal experience of war during the Nazi period and the time of the Holocaust.

Besides exegetical works and biblical stories, one of Köder's leitmotiv is the Harlequin. A counterpart of the modern robot — a creation of rationality, logic, planning, and precision — the Harlequin symbolises irrationality, poetry, freedom, amusement. The Harlequin stands for art and for the artist. Furthermore, behind its comic facade there is the reality of each one of us. In fact, “We are all fools”, states Sieger Köder. Maybe the Harlequin stands also for the folly of God.