Posted on May 10, 2025 
by arslohgo
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“Saltire”—For just a few moments, airplane contrails form a saltire (Saint Andrew’s Cross) against the bright blue morning sky, creating the Scottish flag and suggesting the illusion of a Scottish bagpiper.
The photograph captures the sky over Dinard, Brittany, and belongs to the “Playing around with skies” series. The SKY series explores its central theme through three dimensions: visual, textual, and auditory.
[A] The combination of the background of the picture (sky and sea) 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.