Posted on September 21, 2024 
by arslohgo
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“SEArle” shows a coastal section and an embedded male person. The word ‘SEA’ is extended by the letters “RLE”, which are an acronym for a company providing development, technology and consulting services to the international mobility, service and wind industries. In this combination the pronunciation of ‘sea’ changes, and the ‘sea’ becomes the American philosopher of language and mind “John Searle”, one of the most important representatives of the Speech Acts theory.
The background is a slightly modified, freely available photograph, and the work is part of the ‘Playing around with Callantsoog waters’ series. The SEA series explores the theme of “SEA” 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.