Posted on February 22, 2025 
by arslohgo
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View from my kitchen window: Sky at sunrise in February, one of various variants of “Behind the Curtain.” A characteristic of these variants are the recurring electricity pylons (in varying numbers), which—like the trees, when visible—stand for life energy in a figurative sense.
Take the theme “Purple Moon” Isis, delete the second “i” from the name of the goddess, and you end up with the “International Space Station” (ISS), which orbits the Earth about every thirty minutes at an altitude of 400 kilometers from west to east at a speed of 29,000 kilometers per hour. Instead of the ancient Egyptian goddess, the space station appears in front of the moon.
The photograph is of the early morning sky over Bochum, and the work is therefore part of the ‘Playing around with skies’ 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.