Jonge leerlingen van Hermannsberg, een nevenvestiging van Schule Schloss Salem, tijdens een uitvoering in de openlucht c. 1929

This silvery black and white photograph shows students in an outdoor performance at Hermannsberg, a branch of Schule Schloss Salem, and feels like something from a dream. I can see a strange mythological beast looming on the stage, but who dreamed it into being? Perhaps it was stitched together by the artist. The body of the creature seems like a long tube that goes on forever. Did the young students huddle together to bring it to life? Did they make masks? What an imagination! It must have been so exciting to be on stage, or perhaps it was scary? What kind of story are they telling? I want to know more, it makes me want to stage my own performance. Artists are in conversation, you know, across time and space, and this photograph inspires my own creativity, it's like a big circle.