"Walk on the Beach"

Gouache on paper

20 x 30 cm (30x40)

2021

Nowhere do I go for such extensive walks as here on the beaches of Sylt. Walking, not hiking or even playing around. To feel the slowness of being, all alone with yourself, alone with your very own thoughts, uninfluenced by others. Here you can stroll for hours along this infinitely long and lavishly wide strip of sand. Look after the spray balls in the wind, watch how the constant wind plays with them, drives them this way and that and in the end blows them into a thousand small pieces. Spray, this conglomerate of water, salt, sand and air! Here I become a playful child, here I let myself go. Without a goal. Just strolling for the sake of strolling ......