Love, Love Me Do!
Kevin Risch
Singing his way to stardom
Losing his dreams to death
Showing his art to the world
Paul chooses a provincial nest
Hoping to find sounds painted
Admiring his music, not color
Surprising - I discovered that
Paintings can also be loved
PMC Impressions
Katharina Funke
Various whispering voices
wah-wah silently in empty rooms
A green queen turns blue shiveringly
Miscarried provocations
In brown-orange-red-pink
shout together on white walls
Bowie's large yellow face
spewing
in John's room
vivid only because of a famous name
Panic pale red 'round
Plastic plantations on plywood
Arty arrowheads amaze analysing amateurs
Unspoken words try to reach one's mind
but they fail in large size
Loudly laudatory lord
pretends to be able to understand
but red turns blue
green turns white
orange turns grey
on a rainy provincial day
in Rubens' native town
Artist's Mystery
Michael Prinz
Don't tell this SECRET
Paul let his children draw them
Then signed his own name
Grown-Up Kids
Michael Prinz
Artists think different
just like little children do
Painted youth of mind
Naive and cheerful
eager to explore new art
into the unknown
Displaying this art
is a tricky decision
'Cause you have to share
And not everyone
Is willing to open up,
let the message in
Microphone or Brush I: Lullaby
Kathrin Latsch
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
How I wonder what you are
In the past you sang like a saint
And now you shock us with your paint
Twinkle, twinkle, little star
We all wonder what you are
Microphone or Brush II: Haiku
Kathrin Latsch
Paul as a Painter?
I cannot imagine this
Paul is a singer!
Sir Paul
Claudia Kettner
I recently
saw Paul McCartney on TV,
singing a song.
Now that everybody can see
his paintings
this seemed strange to me.
Is he really a singer?
Peeling Paul's Onion: Field Trip, June 1999
C.W.
"peel[ing] off the layers of the onion...
the idea of layers is important,
psychologically as well as with paint"
(Paul McCartney in an interview with Wolfgang Suttner)
We gathered in a knot
for a magical mystery tour.
How to slash through the seven seals of the paintings?
Words helped us scrape off secrets;
Scratches claw deep in the blackness,
revealing the colors beneath.
Stomping up state-of-the-art steel steps,
past greener queens
into the upper-level summer heat,
pulling off our jackets like onion layers,
we find beach towels and sharks on canvas.
Young guide drones us into passivity
while big mountain faces stare.
Strong yellow Celts wake us up.
Surprises underneath the varnish spill out.
We leave, loosened into other worlds.
Onions have no center, says Ibsen;
But the process of peeling--that's the thing.
ART
Claudia Duwe
art / part I / techniques
a painter paints pictures
a singer sings song
can a painter sing a song?
can a singer paint a picture?
could be that some of them can
could be that songs create images
they just have to be seen
could be that paintings hum melodies
they just have to be heard.
could be that art is art.
for the one who lets it be.
art / part II / art meets heart
could be that you don't really need ears 
to hear the melody of a painting.
could be that you don't really need eyes
to see the image a song creates.
could be you just need your heart.
art / part III / a new definition
could be that art is not art
until it touches a heart.
could be that art is not a 'thing':
art is a process of action and reaction.
art / epilogue / question of dependence
art depends on the action of human beings
to be created
art depends on the reaction of human beings
to be art
Unspoken Words: Silent Monologue
Julia Albrecht
words
so hard to speak
i know i will explode if i don't let them out
i'm trying to speak but no sound appears
why is it so hard to find the right moment to speak?
The chance is here, i could say it now, in this instance,
just speak those words out, right from my heart
but i just can't
and the moment passes by in silence
too late
my words remain unspoken