Posted on September 19, 2024 
by arslohgo
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“SEAcow” or “Siren”—What you see is a land animal in/on the sea— actually a cow. What is meant is a sea creature—a siren, a creature whose closest living relative is the elephant.
The background is a slightly modified, freely available photograph, and the work is part of the ‘Playing around with Callantsoog waters’ series. The SEA series explores the theme of “SEA” on three levels: visual, written, and sound.
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] 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.