"A day could have 40 hours for me, and that wouldn't be enough," Millo Lüderitz openly admits, as he cheerfully gathers the supplies for his project. At the same time, he pours tea into a cup and restarts the Red Hot Chili Peppers record in the player. Colorful surfboards line the walls, decorated with photographs from all over the world. Next to them, a shimmering purple octopus sits perched on the vase to the right of the drum kit, observing the scenery.
Millo Lüderitz is a native of Sylt, an avid surfer, craftsman, family man, and artist . It's understandable, then, that a day with 24 hours seems too short. "I always come up with something, I always have ideas." It's this creativity that also benefits his art: fish printing. Gyotaku is the name of the Japanese method, whose origins lie in the later years of the Edo period (1603-1869), Japan's last traditional era. Extraordinary, sometimes exceptionally large, catches were proudly documented for posterity using fish printing . All without cell phone cameras and Instagram, but with paint, brushes, and fabric.
Millo discovered his current passion through his friend Olaf. Olaf heard about it during a trip to Hawaii and told him about it. Back home on Sylt, Olaf printed a flounder, which found a place of honor at Pius Regli's Manne Pahl restaurant and soon became the legendary "Mey Flounder." None other than Reinhard Mey himself bought the special artwork. A year later, after Millo had Olaf's design tattooed on his upper arm and they returned from a vacation in Morocco, they discovered that very same creature—a truly rare specimen for Sylt—at the high-tide line. Their luckiest find to date , and in their eyes a significant sign that sparked years of collaborative gyotaku projects.
