January 2025

“Global Pressure" at first glance, it's about the international press. The international daily newspapers and the lettering “Press” seem to indicate this. Daily newspapers and the press present and symbolize a worldwide event, which only comes to the fore by adding the surname of the Scottish singer and guitarist Midge Ure (singer of Ultravox in the 1980s, among others) to the term 'Press'. The highlighted letters 'URE' in the title serve as a reference to the name, but is only helpful if the name is known... “Global Pressure” can be associated with the pressure of financial...


Continue Reading »

"Awesome Thing"—the embedding of the earth from a space perspective in the context of a star in the process of formation generates the theme of this work. By integrating the image of the earth into the sequence of letters 'b-d-a-y' and placing it visually in the foreground, the appreciation of a past elementary event is created. A birth-day/b-earth-day (bˈɜːθde͡ɪ) is an awesome thing.The background of the mini poster, as well as the earth, is represented by freely available images from the worldwide web. As in the various series, this single work explores the underlying...


Continue Reading »

"Tolkien 01A"—What you see is the skyline of New York City, from which the head of a character from the Middle-earth saga of Tolkien emerges. Together with the 5-letter fragment 'NEWY', this head forms the city name. The grayish overall picture conveys an ambivalent mood - not only because of the orc head. In literature, orcs symbolize evil, cruelty, violence and death. The dark side of this cosmopolitan city is reflected in the tonal combination of text and orc (head). For decades - especially from the 1970s to the 1990s - the city resembled a Moloch, characterized by murder,...


Continue Reading »

"Treetop & the Crow-n" shows a view of the sky behind a top of a tree. Tree' plus 'crown' form the German word for the English 'treetop'—'Baumkrone', also the English word 'crown' itself  refers to a treetop in botanical usage. Tree and sky are the habitat of the (zoological) crow, which in turn is part of the word 'crown'. The crown floating above the crow's head is meant to represent the bird's outstanding position in the animal kingdom. Their intelligence, their ability to use tools, to solve problems and to communicate, their life in complex social structures and their...


Continue Reading »

Since modern, increasingly colorful graphic 'emojis' have dominated computer and smartphone messages, I think they often make it more difficult to read and understand messages. In principle, there is nothing to be said against the sparing use of these emotional comments - and here too, in my opinion, it should be uncolored and at the text character level.  For occasional use, I prefer ordinary punctuation marks, letters, special characters and numbers—in other words, 'emoticons', the raw emoji format, so to speak. Well, we all have different approaches to type, form and scope...


Continue Reading »

"Hexameter" is one of more than 19,000 hexameters from Friedrich Klopstock's epic poem 'The Messiah' - a line from the last, the 'Twentieth Canto': "Praise, o nature, yet to Him who created you!" It is a line from one of the hymns of praise to the new creation.The Greek 'hexa' is the link between the ancient meter (Greek 'hexa' = six and 'metron' = measure) and the transformation of a line with this meter into hexadecimal notation (Greek 'hexa' = six and Latin 'decem' = ten, base-16 numeral system). The content of the hexameter is more or less arbitrary. This work is an exemplary...


Continue Reading »

The man and his over-the-shoulder avatar (the 2nd me) - former software developer and technical author, retired vocational school teacher and now hobby artist who makes art for himself, or at least art for the sake of art. Unhappily widowed, mourning spouse and all the missed opportunities of decades together, but at the same time at peace with life in loneliness. Playing with language and pictures  fills  resulting emptiness with joy of life. Since images and thus also words, a smartphone and various computers are omnipresent, it is not difficult to sit down in a studio...


Continue Reading »

The work describes an aspect of thinking about ageing, or more precisely about my own ageing, and can in a way be understood as a self-portrait. In my hands, the AI-supported smartphone—gateway to the world and tool that has replaced the camera; in front of the setting sun, the symbol for an Ai chip—representing the battery of the various computers in my study. The sunset is not to be understood as the end (of the world), but rather as a time for the beginning of my creative phases.The photograph is the North Sea sky near Bremerhaven, and the work is, in the broadest sense,...


Continue Reading »

ðə mˈan and hɪz ˈə͡ʊvə-ðˈə-ʃˈə͡ʊldəɹ ˈavɐtˌɑː (ðˈə 2ˌɛndˈiː sˈɛlf) fˈɔːmə sˈɒftwe͡ə dɪvˈɛləpə and tˈɛknɪkə͡l ˈɔːθə, ɹɪtˈa͡ɪ͡əd və͡ʊkˈe͡ɪʃənə͡l skˈuːl tˈiːt͡ʃə and nˈa͡ʊ hˈɒbi ˈɑːtɪst hˌuː mˌe͡ɪks ˈɑːt fɔː hɪmsˈɛlf, ɔːɹ at lˈiːst ˈɑːt fɔː ðə sˈe͡ɪk ɒv ˈɑːt.ʌnhˈapɪli wˈɪdə͡ʊd, mˈɔːnɪŋ hɪz spˈa͡ʊs and ˈɔːl ðə mˈɪst ɒpətjˈuːnɪtiz ɒv dˈɛke͡ɪdz təɡˈɛðə, bˌʌt at ðə sˈe͡ɪm tˈa͡ɪm at pˈiːs wɪð lˈa͡ɪf ɪn hɪz lˈə͡ʊnlinəs....


Continue Reading »

This guide is based on the menu structure of the site and provides more detailed support for exploring the site than the Quickhiker's Guide on the starting page. Like to take a quick look at the latest works? Click on «RECENTLY POSTED» You will be taken to a page showing the last six works. Select a work to call up its description. or click on «WORKS BLOG» to go directly to the blog with the picture descriptions. The first blog page lists the most recent posts with the most recent at the top. Cruising through picture collections Click on «MY GALLERIES DASHBOARD» Galleries I to V are themed...


Continue Reading »