Fish Magic – So Easy Even Your Kids Can Do It

“Art does not reproduce what is visible, it makes visible what is not always evident.”
The phrase of Paul Klee encapsulates part of his poetry and is translated visually to the technique of graffiti that the artist employs in his painting “Fish Magic” from 1925.

The painting’s surface is dark, an unformed background; as before the explosion and creation of life, which was the Big Bang: In the beginning was darkness. This darkness is the stuff from the unconscious. It is hidden under the surface of things and even of ourselves that is difficult to discern and comprehend, which appears to be a real mystery. Being aware of our unconscious, just like the mysteries of our existence is a challenging, but not impossible job, a heroic challenge that isn’t everyone prepared to undertake. Mirror, mirror on the wall What are the elements of my life?


The light of the moon shines in the darkness
Klee’s magic fish do not claim to be truth but only light that illuminates the darkness. They are inhabitants of the dark, creatures of the subconscious. The artist is able to scratch into the surface of unconscious as well as the canvas beneath lie hidden but vivid figures, plants, colours, shapes and visions. Open Art Images of this process is vital and healing, showing how, within the depths of the sea and dark ignorance, there are small shimmering animals that stir the water as they follow currents. Fish are desires, stories and tales flashes of ideas, visions, dreams that come out of the night. from the darkness. These are games that drown in the midst of life, they are colourful childhood fantasies, impulsive thoughts that consciously or unconsciously guide people’s dreams and actions.

Rare and valuable fish

Are these fishes real or not? In these exotic and esoteric life forms?

The fundamental reason for these signs is that fish do not want to be believed. their existence is not

is influenced by external acceptance. We think that we can see and have control over everything, that we have the full view of the world but in the depths of the ocean, in the unconscious and the past decades of our lives, are essences and coincidences of which we are in the dark: fish that are not seen, rare and precious animals. You think you know every inch of who you are, but forget that there is, within the most secret and inseparable part within you, an snail fish that is wags its tail and that, although it is relegated down in a place unreachable by the mind, it releases visceral thoughts and jelly. It is then easy to forget that dream that was a distant memory, that was the child’s innocence and was locked away in a bubble, which was nothing but the bowl of a fish. And the dream lies there, a viper of a fish which turns and turns within the sphere. It now it reveals its teeth. You see the gleams of its formless reflections because you have pulled away the shutter, and the it is dark in the room.

Accustoming to the senses
In the still and quiet, however, it is easier to detect light, sense motion, and hear rustling sounds It’s just a matter of having to adjust your perception to the darkness. It can take a while, and can be a bit annoying at first because you have the impression of being blind, but once you are comfortable with it, you will be able to overcome the darkness, you can even feed on the darkness. The scales shimmer, bubbles pop transparently, nothing is really clear, but everything actually appears to be a complete picture that can be scratched a little more, still in the event that we’re alive and decide we want to know ourselves a little more.

Watching them as they swim
What to do with these fish? Do we need to fish them and bring them up to the surface or keep them hidden in the seabed? It is surely important to preserve their wildness and strangeness and not force them into aquariums with sunlit lights by the sun or serve them as the main course in the lunch of logic. Precisely in their nature absurd, ugly, and bizarre nature lies their power , and the way we can utilize them to clarify our essence. Fish must be observed and let ourselves be drawn into their routine and incessant swimming: an act of meditation, a constant repetition that allows one to find out more about them every second. We have to observe the flashes that flicker across the screen and then fade away as they are a series of lights which briefly light up the darkness of our being. They allow us to look deep into the darkness of being.

Ocean currents
The fish are not immobile and move between me and you and vice versa; they have discovered a collective flow that passes us all through and connects common beliefs and thoughts. The fish know you but do not evaluate you, and thus do not need boundaries to delimit them. The dark is their home but they’re not afraid of occasionally being fished out and having their essence shine through like a flash of lightning, similar to an eureka like a ray energy that flows up the spine and explodes into the brain. It’s like the electric flow of the current that flows through the light cables. Fish are just like that, swimming, bobbing, dancing in their flow The ocean is their sanctuary and they are not afraid of the absence of walls and limits. In fact, it is in the sphericity of the globe that they best feel the freedom of being present today, not in the future, of being able to wander eternally, aware it is always possible to find their way back as in the waters of the unconscious the path is circular.