Posted on October 3, 2024 
by arslohgo
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“SEAshell” refers to both the shell’s exoskeleton and the seawater shell itself. More than that, the term “shell” conjures up an image of a gas station rising from the sea at night under a full moon—an image that is not necessarily associated with our environment in a positive way.
The background is a combination of a true and a slightly modified, freely available photograph, and the work is part of the ‘Playing around with Callantsoog skies and waters’ series. The combsined SKY and SEA series explores the theme of “SKY” and “SEA” on three levels: visual, written, and sound.
[A] The combination of the background of the picture (sky and sea) 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.