Posted on May 21, 2025 
by arslohgo
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“L’arbre des cinq femmes”—The Tree of Five Women presents what initially appears to be a simple tree set against a cloudy sky. Upon closer examination, five female silhouettes emerge from the trunk and main branches. Trees have long symbolized magical narratives and hidden truths. Perhaps this image holds another such secret.
The photograph captures the sky above Dinard, Brittany, making it part of the “Playing around with skies” series. The SKY series investigates 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.