Don’t you sometimes get the feeling that suddenly nothing is clear anymore, even though everything seemed so obvious up until that moment? This can happen, for example, when you take a closer look at something you previously took for granted and realize that it’s not what you thought it was—the familiar becomes unfamiliar. It’s something like the centipede effect: if you think too hard about walking, you’ll stumble. “Cut–Lacking Clarity” reflects such a moment of disorientation—a moment as if clouds are obscuring your view, or comparable to a film cut that opens up a change of perspective. Fortunately, such moments of disorientation are usually temporary – our brain works to construct new models or find solid ground again. But in the moment of confusion, it feels as if the ground beneath our understanding of the world has opened up.

The background image is a modified section of the sky photo from “Skyline.” The male face was created using generative AI and adjusted “manually” before being embedded in the overall composition.