Posted on February 2, 2025 
by arslohgo
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Take a well-known warning sign as a motif, exchange just one letter of the title and the result is interesting/funny, occasionally also meaningful transformations. The starting point for this work is the warning sign “Beware of (the) dog”. So what I did was nothing more than exchange the first letter of the word ‘dog’ for the letter ‘h’, which resulted in the first work of the “Beware of (the) ?og” collection.
On the one hand, ‘hog’ refers to the animal (‘Schwein’ in German), on the other hand, ‘hog’ is used colloquially to refer to a motorcycle (‘Bock’ or ‘Mühle’). The letter swap creates a new warning sign, while at the same time retaining a similarity in sound to the original phrase.
[A] The combination of the background of the picture 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.