Sumpf Wassernixe by Paul Klee. A Feuilleton

Sumpf Wassernixe by Paul Klee. A Feuilleton is organised as a startling feuilleton that unfolds into a bold compendium of artistic musings, a paean to free speech and a signpost towards new hermeneutic pathways. It leads the author to reconsider the challenges of Bildwissenschaft in the current Geological Turn and the role of marshes as myth and medium in particular. And this, ultimately, is what water does: it leaves behind uniquely fragile and ephemeral traces. Water is one endless creative process. Sandbanks become drawings, sea foam becomes lace, the rocks are polished, carved and sanded, and the banks of the marshes, with their mossy green and ochre silts, glisten like pigments on a canvas.