December 2023

Part of a collection of ink paintings created in the 1980s and early 1990s Accompanying text for the Worpswede Exhibition in 1984 "Be—The Time Has Come" belongs to a short series of images about fenales. It is the second in this series. As in "Yes—Symbols of the Pink" the written utterances  form the ribcage of this work: «The sleeping beauty in the wood has woken up» and «Cinderella doesn't feed no pidgeon no more» …


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"SKYfall"—The first thing that comes to mind is probably the James Bond movie from 2012, but this is a different fiction. What happens when the sky falls down? The resulting gap is filled by the view of the universe and the question arises: Will humans be able to experience, i.e survive this? Another thing that comes to mind is an idea of the end of the world that has been proven to have prevailed among the Celts (including the Greek historian Arrianus, 95 BC to 175 AD, and early medieval Irish literature). The Celts feared nothing except that the sky would fall on them. Most...


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"SKYline" shows a view of the sky, crossed by a diagonal line, obviously a skyline. At the same time, the term 'skyline' is used worldwide to describe a panorama that shows a city with its tallest buildings against the horizon. Even if there are no really straight lines in nature, but rather curvatures and bends, we assume to see straight lines, or imagine them. And even if they do not exist, they can at least be "artificially" installed. Art gives us the possibility of adding impossibilities to realities—for whatever purpose. In this case, to achieve a linguistic ambiguity. The...


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“Inner external pictures” is one of the first phonemic pictures created in the context of thinking about language, images and art and deals with the subject of ‘speaking and thinking’. To make things easier for those who are unfamiliar with the international phonetic alphabet or who may not know it at all, here is the re-transformation into the source language. In the case of phonemic pictures whose source language is not English, a translation into English is also carried out.Innere Bilder Kompositionen von Lauten verwirklichte Gedanken in Zeichnung und Sprache...


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"Gedicht" (poem) is one of the first phonemic pictures created in the context of thinking about language, images and art and deals with the subject of 'speaking and thinking'. To make things easier for those who are unfamiliar with the international phonetic alphabet or who may not know it at all, here is the re-transformation into the source language. In the case of phonemic pictures whose source language is not English, a translation into English is also carried out.lautgeschriebenes leise gesprochen geschrieben gesprochen gedacht gesprochen geschrieben gedacht gedacht...


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