Teilchen und Welle (Particle and Wave), was an early drawing that influenced much of Marlis’ art. Many of the paintings art historian Claus Sautter called Marlis’ “Calligraphic Landscapes” all derive, in form, from the basic parts of our nature, as embodied in Quantum Physics by the particle and the wave, or matter and energy. When examining the smallest parts of our universe in a laboratory, scientist discover that wave measuring machines always “see” waves, while particle measuring machines aways “see” particles. In Marlis’ Calligraphic Landscapes, the viewer’s particular “lens” alternately sees matter forming or energy moving in the abstract calligraphy of particles and waves.