Posted on June 8, 2025 
by arslohgo
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Hemingway—Most people recognize Hemingway’s name, and many are familiar with “The Old Man and the Sea,” even if they can’t identify its author. This work depicts Santiago moments before returning to his small Cuban coastal village after three days and nights of solitary battle with a marlin. Since sharks devoured the marlin during his return journey, Santiago brings back only its skeleton. In this image, however, he at least has the company of flying fish.
The background elements consist of modified, freely available photographs, while Santiago, the protagonist of Hemingway’s novella, was created using AI. This piece belongs to the “Playing around with skies and waters” series. The SEA series explores its theme through three dimensions: visual, textual, and auditory.
[A] The combination of the background of the picture (the 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] Additionally it is the title of the work that reveals a background and thematic association of the image.
[D] And in the one or other case it is just a modified photograph.