Posted on February 15, 2025 
by arslohgo
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We are all familiar with blue lips (and I don’t mean lips with blue make-up), whether from our own childhood or from children when they come ashore shivering and with bluish lips after spending too long in cold water. However, that’s not what this work is about. These lips on the surface of the sea are nothing more than an artifact with which each individual may associate what they wish, but nonetheless: “The sea speaks.”
The background is a slightly modified, freely available photograph, and the work is part of the ‘Playing around with waters’ series. The SEA series explores the theme of “SEA” on three levels: visual, written, and sound.
[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.