January 2024

The basis of phonemic pictures is—how could it be otherwise—the international phonetic alphabet 'IPA'. The elongated 'I' ends in a stylized foundation outline. 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. Das Fundament IPA Internationales phonetisches  Alphabet the foundationIPAinternational phonetic alphabet


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"v.e.r.s. poster"—the abbreviation corresponds to the German word for ‘verse’. v.e.r.s. is formed from the initial letters of the German terms for ‘(imagine’, ‘recognize’, ‘talk’ and ‘ponder’ listed after the title. The work is the first of a sequence of ten pictures and functions as an introduction to the complete work. The original ten ultimately became twelve pictures: three times four pictures each in picture frames in a bigger frame, forming a triptych. To make things easier for those who are unfamiliar with the international phonetic alphabet or who may not know...


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Put simply, “Inner monologue”, also one of the early phonemic pictures, deals with the subject of ‘talking to oneself silently’. Announcements to oneself are nothing unusual, it does not necessarily have to be a dialog. The German term for announcements contains the character sequence 'laut', which—understood as a noun—represents the linguistic designation for a sound ('phoneme'). As an adjective, however, 'laut' is to be understood as 'loud', a nice contradiction in the context of laudless talking to oneself. To make things easier for those who are unfamiliar with...


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