Miniposter-from literature

Click image to enlarge The "Director's Cut" should really be called the "Artist's Cut." Since this term doesn't exist, it could only have entered the work's title as a newly coined phrase. However, since almost everyone understands what "Director's Cut" means, I took the liberty of simply using this familiar term. By switching the two Hemingway protagonists—replacing the marlin with a toxic waste bin and transforming the old man from Santiago into ARSlohgo, the narrator of this reinterpreted visual story—the original themes in "Marlin's Fate"...


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Click image to enlarge A deep blue sea blends seamlessly into an equally blue sky, with clouds drifting swiftly overhead. From the water, a marlin's skeleton emerges behind an old, white-haired man—any well-read viewer will immediately recognize this as Hemingway's 'The Old Man and the Sea.' "Marlin's Fate" transforms Hemingway's classic tale into a contemporary environmental allegory. By rendering everything in ocean blues and merging sea and sky, I've created an all-encompassing aquatic world that emphasizes how oceans dominate our planet...


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Click image to enlarge 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,...


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"SKeYeless in Gaza—Beavis" is a variation on the "SKeYe" theme in both literary and musical contexts. The title references Huxley's novel "Eyeless in Gaza" and its protagonist—a fragmented, stylistically complex work largely concerned with personal transformation. Transformation ultimately serves as a central theme in my work, with the sky's ever-changing cloud formations providing an ideal backdrop for integrating additional subthemes.The rear-view figures in the "Cloud Fog" depict the musical duo Eyeless in Gaza, named after Huxley's novel. They appear to walk toward Anthony...


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4891 II—In this variant of the original work, visual elements have been slightly altered.The background features a modified depiction of an East German capital. This work belongs to a series that draws on literary themes and figures, exploring diverse subjects through three dimensions.[A] The combination of visual objects in the picture form the theme which is as fictitious as the literary source. [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...


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891—The objects, surveillance cameras, and text phrases in the image, combined with the title, reveal the work's central theme. Reading the title from right to left provides the key insight.The background features a modified depiction of the German capital. This work belongs to a series that draws on literary themes and figures, exploring diverse subjects through three dimensions. [A] The combination of visual objects in the picture form the theme which is as fictitious as the literary source. [B] In addition, this combination may result in a new subject or an invented word...


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“Tolkien 01B”—Although the work includes a digital component, I classify it as literature-related. Against the backdrop of a section of the Shire, or rather a New Zealand landscape, the combination of hob and the representation for the IT unit 'bit' formulates the image theme and shapes the 'hobbit', one of the central figures in Tolkien's stories.The background is a slightly modified, freely available photograph of a New Zealand landscape, and the work is part of a series that draws on themes and figures from literature. Here, too, a wide variety of themes are explored...


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"Tolkien 01A"—What you see is the skyline of New York City, from which the head of a character from the Middle-earth saga of Tolkien emerges. Together with the 5-letter fragment 'NEWY', this head forms the city name. The grayish overall picture conveys an ambivalent mood - not only because of the orc head. In literature, orcs symbolize evil, cruelty, violence and death. The dark side of this cosmopolitan city is reflected in the tonal combination of text and orc (head). For decades - especially from the 1970s to the 1990s - the city resembled a Moloch, characterized by murder,...


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