Posted on May 6, 2025 
by arslohgo
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The “SEA” (near the Dutch coast) combined with the dog creates the German word “Seehund,” which translates to “seal” in English.
The background features a snapshot taken from the Hull-Rotterdam ferry deck just off the Dutch coast. This work presents another variation—an abstraction of Variation 1 from the “Under Seal” theme—and belongs to the SEA series. The SEA series explores its central theme through three dimensions: visual, textual, and auditory.
[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.