“Tolkien 01B”—Although the work includes a digital component, I classify it as literature-related. Against the backdrop of a section of the Shire, or rather a New Zealand landscape, the combination of hob and the representation for the IT unit ‘bit’ formulates the image theme and shapes the ‘hobbit’, one of the central figures in Tolkien’s stories.
The background is a slightly modified, freely available photograph of a New Zealand landscape, and the work is part of a series that draws on themes and figures from literature. Here, too, a wide variety of themes are explored on three levels.
[A] The combination of several visual objects against a themed background 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.