“FFM Stockmarket Singers—The DAXhund III” presents another variation on the original theme. This work draws an analogy to the “Town Musicians of Bremen,” transposed to Frankfurt am Main (FFM) and featuring both real and fictional stock market animals. The “Stockmarket Singers” represent a kind of visitation that emerges from the Frankfurt Stock Exchange in the mind’s eye.
[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.