Posted on April 19, 2025 
by arslohgo
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“Weekend”—It’s early Saturday morning as darkness gradually yields to daylight. Saturn’s presence in the sky offers a fitting reference to the weekend, since Saturday takes its English name from this planet—itself named after Saturnus, the supreme Titan and father of Jupiter.
The background captures a section of the early morning sky in Bochum.
[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.