February 2025

View from my kitchen window: Sky at sunrise in February, one of various variants of “Behind the Curtain.” A characteristic of these variants are the recurring electricity pylons (in varying numbers), which—like the trees, when visible—stand for life energy in a figurative sense.The purple moon, a rare lunar phenomenon, has always been the subject of many myths. In addition to spirituality, magic and mystery, it also symbolizes creativity and originality. In terms of spiritual transformation, the purple moon is a reminder that even in the darkest of times we can find the light...


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View from my kitchen window: Sky at sunrise in February, one of various variants of “Behind the Curtain.” A characteristic of these variants are the recurring electricity pylons (in varying numbers), which—like the trees, when visible—stand for life energy in a figurative sense. Take the theme "Purple Moon" Isis, delete the second "i" from the name of the goddess, and you end up with the "International Space Station" (ISS), which orbits the Earth about every thirty minutes at an altitude of 400 kilometers from west to east at a speed of 29,000 kilometers per hour. Instead...


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View from my kitchen window: Sky at sunrise in February, one of various variants of “Behind the Curtain.” A characteristic of these variants are the recurring electricity pylons (in varying numbers), which—like the trees, when visible—stand for life energy in a figurative sense. Via "Purple Moon" Isis to the ISS to the third Purple Moon theme: Since the space station is manned, it is only natural that an astronaut appears in front of the moon. Thus the original goddess becomes a human being. The photograph is of the early morning sky over Bochum, and the work is therefore...


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View from my kitchen window: Sky at sunrise in February, one of various variants of “Behind the Curtain.” A characteristic of these variants are the recurring electricity pylons (in varying numbers), which—like the trees, when visible—stand for life energy in a figurative sense. Images evoke images. The morning look out of the window into the silence of the morning, into the stillness of the red morning sky, brings back memories. It is amazing what kind of memories they can be. On this morning, it is a scene from one of the relaxation areas at the Tate Modern in London....


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This personalized variation of “Awesome Thing” also draws on the star theme. Logical, because it has been proven that we humans are nothing more than stardust, a (scientific) realization that Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young already expressed in their song “Woodstock” back in 1969: “...We are stardust, we are golden. We are billion year old carbon...” 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)...


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“STER'S"—is an ‘abbreviated’ picture title which, in combination with the word object ‘WEB’ in the picture as its appendix, forms the underlying theme. Superficially, it seems to be about the digital cosmos of the (worldwide) web, but beyond that, the dictionary pages of the 'Webster's New World Dictionary of the American Language' discreetly shining out of the net point to the fact that there are still alternative analog forms of life/reading—even for me.  Here we have the second theme. This may seem antiquated, there is for example 'DeepL', a powerful online translator...


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After months of extreme suffering, fear and hopelessness on C.'s part, fear for her, pain because of her suffering and constant inner turmoil on my part, all the sudden there was something like real hope. In hindsight, I realize that the black clouds were already gathering at that time, I just didn't want to see them—so shortly before the longed-for return home. It's not a memory, this sight of C., the photo taken three months before her death, has burned itself into my mind like a stamp, accompanying me the whole time.


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“Loss of the Soul”, subtitled ‘Young Girl Encounters the Young C. G. Jung—Dialogue without a Couch’ is the second work set in the environment of the human psyche. Similar to “PD” it focuses on pathogenic events, set within the confines of one's mind. In the (image) background, the meaninglessness and insignificance of life plays a decisive role for those affected. For Jung, it is the “loss of soul” that is the problem of the modern world (he expressed this as early as the 1960s). According to Jung, everyone ultimately suffers from the fact that they have lost...


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We are all familiar with blue lips (and I don't mean lips with blue make-up), whether from our own childhood or from children when they come ashore shivering and with bluish lips after spending too long in cold water. However, that's not what this work is about. These lips on the surface of the sea are nothing more than an artifact with which each individual may associate what they wish, but nonetheless: “The sea speaks.”The background is a slightly modified, freely available photograph, and the work is part of the ‘Playing around with waters’ series. The SEA series explores...


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“Kashmere” is a construct of ‘Kashmir’ (the name of an ethnically diverse Himalayan region) and ‘cashmere’ (fine wool obtained from the fur of the cashmere goat, one of the most expensive products in the world). The new word combination of the two terms, which have the same pronunciation, ideally accompanies several themes that are interwoven in the image composition: the rugged mountain landscape of the Himalayas as the original habitat of cashmere goats, embedded in balls of cashmere wool and unprocessed cashmere wool, which in German literally produces 'blankes'...


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