the art of ballOOn-painting

Above The Town (1999)

Dispersion Paint on Watercolour-Paper
40 x 52 cm
©kurz/balloon-painting

«Out of the chimneys, here and there, smoke,
up, high, in sunny air, from time to time pigeons.
It is afternoon.
From Mohdricker´s garden cackles a hen,
the whole town smells of coffee. [...]
How it smells? Up to me!
And the colours! Now! How the wind is blowing!
The wonder-, wonderful colours!

I close my eyes. I am still seeing them.«

A. Holz
Rote Dächer!
(Red Roofs)

faithfully translated by Uwe Kurz