f. Juatta KoetherFirst published in Germany in 1987, this is artist and writer Jutta Koethers meditation on painting. In novella form, f. follows several disembodied female characters as they consider velvet, coral, the curtain, money, color, red. These objects, these things, help the narrator and other characters come into being, but it is paintings that embody who the narrator really is: Even if Im their hostage when I look at them, Im not inferior to them. I lie