La Marmotte in the Circle of Sound: When Flute Makes Drawing Dance!

Yesterday I completed the 'La Marmotte' drawing.

Anke Kreuz played the song twice in a row on her flute for me at the end of February: The first time I used a thin black ink pen, the second time a light green one. The melody came across so bouncy to me that I thought of spring dances and May customs - lightness, which is conveyed to me by light green.

'La Marmotte' was the sixth drawing that emerged from our encounter between flute and drawing. After five drawings, we took a break and talked about sound: How does sound spread in a room? And how have I drawn it so far? So far in a linear direction of movement. So I decided to change this with the next drawing.

While the right hand was drawing, I kept rotating the drawing board in circles with the left hand. How fitting, I thought later, because during the piece I saw old circle dances in my mind's eye. The further processing of the drawing proceeded sluggishly over many days, until I thought, now "all is lost". These are the moments in painting where a clear decision is needed, sometimes resulting in hours of work being "destroyed", in my case "invisible", because it is completely painted over with black ink.was.

Note: „La Marmotte“ (auch bekannt als Marmotte) ist ein Kunstlied von Ludwig van Beethoven (Op. 52, Nr. 7), welches um 1790 entstand. The song is now a popular classic in music education and is often performed by choirs or as piano accompaniment. The text is from the fair festival at Plundersweilern by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe.
'I have traveled through many lands,
With the marmot,
And always found something to eat,
With the marmot.'