March 2025

"A. ..nox"—Annie Lennox, singer with the Eurythmics in the 1980s, solo artist since the early 1990s. Alongside Dolores O'Riordan, she is the second member of my "AFFMs" (absolute favorite female musicians) to whom this short series is dedicated. Her singing, her versatility, and her social and political commitment have impressed me time and again over the years.The work shows Annie Lennox both in her younger years and at age 60. The color division is intended to reflect her versatility.[A] The combination of several visual objects against a themed background may evoke an (English)...


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A variation of D'OR in shades of gray against a dark gray background and in portrait format. Clearer, because not 'translucent', despite the overlapping of the boxes, which are intended to symbolize the 'light' and 'dark' (the ups and downs) in the singer's life. [A] The combination of several visual objects against a themed background 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 but differently spelled word combination,...


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"D'OR"—Dolores O'Riordan, singer of the Cranberries, is one of my favorite female musicians and the work is part of a short series on "AFFMs" (absolute favorite female musicians). For quite a while there were only two female artists; recently there have been three. I switched the position of the apostrophe in the name abbreviation from after to before the "O," so the name abbreviation now evokes the French term for "golden." There are two representations of this musician (see also D'OR II).The artist's head merges with the dawning day in the sunset and the rising ground mist...


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Nouvelle chanson ou SAGAZA-H/N-O – Une jeune femme a non seulement fait revivre la chanson française en France, mais elle l'a aussi rendue musicalement ›sociable‹ pour la jeunesse de la modernité actuelle, même en dehors de l'espace francophone. L'association de la chanson classique et de l'univers sonore électronique, la voix, l'habitus et le rayonnement de Zaho de Sagazan m'ont – comme on dit aujourd'hui – tout de suite séduite, voire ›flashé‹. J'avais déjà eu une 'phase française' dans les années 1980 avec la pop d'avant-garde des Les Rita Mitsouko et le duo rock-pop...


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What small children have always known is that the answer to the question "How does salt get into the sea?" is not scientific—"science is bad." The answer is as simple as toddler thinking: salt water is man-made. This picture goes out to all those simple minds, especially overseas, who get lost in conspiracy theories, who take any nonsense at face value without checking it, who deny factual truths, and who above all believe they have to educate their children themselves for religious or other reasons.In the icy wastelands around the North Pole there are huge hidden storage facilities...


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“Lebenslange Lügen – lautlos leiden": the German words for ‘lifetime of lies—suffering silently’ form an alliteration...life can be an open prison full of emptiness.


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“Halb-e-Zeit” (half-time)— an incomplete, vertically halved, yet clearly ‘recognizable’ time indication. You don't have to be an IT expert to be familiar with the digital display of numbers. Digital time displays have long been part of our everyday lives—whether it's the time displayed on stoves, coffee machines and other household appliances or on our wristwatches and mobile devices. If you look at the digits of our decimal system, it should be immediately obvious that they can only be the digits '1' and '4' and that 14:41 is the time. Nothing more and nothing...


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As the title says, a wallpaper. I occasionally change the wallpapers on my computer screens, preferring personal motifs. In this case, it's the background for my laptop based on the preliminary study "Win Background Vorstudie." I wouldn't go so far as to say that by leaving nature and logging into the computer I enter heaven (on earth)... but it is a bit like that. The sky—a fascination for me—stands for freedom and more, and I see the computer in a similar way. I have lived with computers since the mid-1980s, many decades in professional contexts and more recently in the creative...


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"Win background preliminary study" is the result of the first considerations for a Windows wallpaper—in the state of the still unfinished theme, so to speak, but which already represents an independent (different) theme in this form. Once the initial ideas are in my head, I follow what I call the "Royal Triangle principle R.E.X."[R]eveal the underlying idea and create a concept: on the one hand, the wallpaper should have a reference to the familiar living environment and also depict a transition into another, the digital world.[E]mbed the individual components of the overall...


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“Tolkien 01B”—Although the work includes a digital component, I classify it as literature-related. Against the backdrop of a section of the Shire, or rather a New Zealand landscape, the combination of hob and the representation for the IT unit 'bit' formulates the image theme and shapes the 'hobbit', one of the central figures in Tolkien's stories.The background is a slightly modified, freely available photograph of a New Zealand landscape, and the work is part of a series that draws on themes and figures from literature. Here, too, a wide variety of themes are explored...


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