Posted on January 6, 2025 
by arslohgo
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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, part of the SKY series. The SKY series explores the theme of “SKY” on three levels: visual, written, and sound.
[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 but differently spelled word combination, as well as through a differently pronounced but equally spelled word.
[C] Sometimes it is the title of the work that reveals the background and thematic association of the image.
[D] And in the one or other case it is just a modified photograph.