May 2024

View from my kitchen window: Sky at sunrise in May.With a little imagination, an 'A' can be seen from the two airplane contrails in combination with the dark cloud formation. In this case, an alternative title, namely “Anarchy in the sky”, could be generated by including the circle section.[A] The combination of the background of the picture (the sky) and another visual object may evoke an (English) term that is ambiguous in German and thus "calls up a second theme". [B] In addition, this combination may result in a new subject or an invented word through an equally pronounced...


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What you see is what is depicted: an eye formed from a cloud formation, and the fusion of 'Sky' and 'Eye' to form 'SKeye'. SKeye is rendered in German as “Himmelsauge” or “himmlisches Auge”. Skeye also is the name of an old rose species. The English ‘celestial eye’ evokes the original cover of Scott-Fitzgerald's ‘The Great Gatsby’. And this cover is based on a painting by Francis Cugat, 'Celestial Eyes'. The photograph is of the sky over Callantsoog, North Holland, and the work is therefore part of the 'Playing around with Callantsoog skies' series. The SKY series...


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