Background screens

As the title says, a wallpaper. I occasionally change the wallpapers on my computer screens, preferring personal motifs. In this case, it's the background for my laptop based on the preliminary study "Win Background Vorstudie." I wouldn't go so far as to say that by leaving nature and logging into the computer I enter heaven (on earth)... but it is a bit like that. The sky—a fascination for me—stands for freedom and more, and I see the computer in a similar way. I have lived with computers since the mid-1980s, many decades in professional contexts and more recently in the creative...


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As the title of the work indicates, this work is designed as a background image for use on computers. The photograph is taken on the coast of Callantsolog, North Holland, and the door to and from the sea is actually a picture of the patio door to my vacation home.[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...


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