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Hilma af Klint

Coda – I Believe: On Hilma af Klint and the Writing Life

Patrick Allington, Meanjin, Spring 2021

This edition of The Circular was guest-edited by Patrick Allington. For your further reading pleasure, we'd like to introduce you to his essay on how he became haunted by Hilma af Klint.

I imagine all af Klint’s paintings and studies and notebooks, thousands of canvases and pages laid out and floating free so that I can move freely around them, view them from every angle, and shift them at will, as if creating a mosaic. Or I imagine them all piled up in the corner of a warehouse, vibrating. Or I imagine them thrown into a vast drum and boiled down to their elixir: a sip gets me through the next day and the next.

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