PROLOGUEHOW MANY LICKS DOES IT TAKE TILL YOU GET TO THE CENTRE OF IT?FLUUUXPEEEEPPOPPPTHUUUDLOOOPRESONANZRAUMUNFOLDING VELLLLUMBIOCOLOPHONPaintings and visual poems by Micha Patiniott unfold across five nonlinear chapters. A porous book exploring perception, echo, sensuality, mysticism, and transformation.VELLLLUM is a new artist book / monograph by Dutch visual artist Micha Patiniott (Amsterdam, 1972), with an essay by artist and writer Mila Lanfermeijer.The book unfolds as a non-linear constellation of paintings and visual poems, spanning work from 2020 to 2025. Patiniott treats vellum as both metaphor and material: a membrane at once fragile and resistant, surface and skin. His work lingers in the porous space where image, language, memory, and perception blur, where the ordinary slips into the strange.\Across five onomatopoeically titled chapters — FLUUUX, PEEEEP, POWWW, THUUUD, and LOOOP — visual poetry scatters language across space like scores, echoing paintings of dissolving bodies, folded geometries, glowing brushes, solarized phalli, and empty sheets cycling between presence and disappearance. Loops, splits, and recursions thread through these works, suggesting painting folding back on itself. A final chapter, RESONANZRAUM, gathers references from art history, mysticism, pop culture, and philosophy that echo through Patiniott’s practice.VELLLLUM hovers between the intimate and the mystical, the reflective and the absurd. It stages painting as a looped gesture of contact: touching, withdrawing, returning.VELLLLUM is a limited artist book by Micha Patiniott. Drifting through paintings and visual poems from 2020 to 2025, it unfolds as a non-linear constellation. Empty paper, folded geometries, and solarized phalli turn vellum into both metaphor and material. A fragile skin where bodies dissolve, language scatters, and intimacy slips into the strange.