From Klimt's "Kiss" and why science has nothing to do with art, to myths and painting (and van Meegeren's sensational forgery), from questions about artistic substance and what a dog has to do with art appreciation, to Realism and Abstraction, and an encounter with Rockstone (and his "pit" in Arizin)--these topics all form part of the fascinating panorama which unfurls in Paul Zwietnig Rotterdam's reflections on art. In the process, it is not only the variety of his subjects and deliberations which determine the wealth of topics in his essays--which in turn are largely based on lectures. In a polyphony of diary entries, autobiographical stories, theoretical excursions, philosophical explorations, scientific reflections and literary gestures--and who does not automatically think of Claude Lévi-Strauss' Tristes Tropiques--this "wild vegetation" is a collection of poetic messages on both hidden and familiar paths related to the freedom of art (or the art of freedom).