Harms, Anja: SONERBOOR In the silence of winter days and nights, when only the sound of the sea and the calls of birds could be heard, a series of fantastic animals emerged on the Hallig Langeneß around the turn of the year 2024/25—a Hallig bestiary, creatures that came into being as if in a frenzy, only to find a home on paper.
And in this book: each small drawing of a Hallig creature lies under a black passe-partout; next to it, as a multicolored linocut, is a greatly enlarged section of the drawing, which, on closer inspection, once again hints at a fantastic creature.
The double pages with texts by Hans Arp appear in the book like shards in the mudflats, flashing like washed-up fragments.
The Halligen would have disappeared long ago if the shores had not been fortified. But that will no longer help against the threat of rising sea levels. The language of the Halligen, Hallig Frisian, is already almost extinct. “Sonerboor,” the title of the book, is the Hallig Frisian word for “strange.” A Hallig bestiary, ger., multicolored linocuts, hand typesetting, letterpress printed drawings behind passe-partout, Butterfly binding in cassette, 58p, Ed. of 25, num., sign., Oberursel, 2026 Request of availability backnext