HUMI - or: The happiness of imagination

Can the world of fantasy be a refuge when reality overwhelms us? Is it possible to look at our everyday surroundings awake and with devotion and at the same time enchant them with the deep poetic power of our soul and transform them with our very own gaze?

HUMI - or: The happiness of imagination

Pit Morell, the painter, draughtsman and poet born in Kassel in 1939 and now living in Worpswede for a long time, convinces us of this: ‘HUMI’ - as he calls his artistic universe - is like entering another world, a kind of hobbit cave like in Tolkien. It lies somewhere at the transition to the fantastic, but never without reference to reality. It is everywhere ‘where the great reveals itself

in the small’, is how the cheerful artist describes his surreal realm of images full of mythical creatures, in which a melancholy, sometimes nostalgic undertone resonates.

The roots of Pit Morell's fantasy realm ‘HUMI’ lie in his early life. The loss of his childhood and familiar living space due to the war at the age of four became a trauma for him. When the family found shelter with relatives in nearby Reinhardswald in 1943, ‘a new and beautiful chapter began for Pit here in the old village of Gottsbüren: HUMI’ - his own personal refuge of the imagination. Another stroke of fate in 1946: the death of his mother when he was seven years old. The move to the village of Hümme, now a district of Hofgeismar, in 1951 finally shaped the name ‘HUMI’ - after all, the Sleeping Beauty Castle Sababurg of the Brothers Grimm stood in this winding half-timbered town and the enchanted Reinhardswald - one of the largest forest areas in Hesse - was certainly teeming with goblins, elves and ghosts.

Pit Morell transports us to a fascinating ‘other reality’, right in the here and now. His works invite us to decode the messages hidden in them for ourselves and in this contemplation we can have a wonderful experience: We sense this space of imagination in our own souls, into which we can retreat at any time and which allows us to exist in reality.

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