Posted on September 30, 2024 
by arslohgo
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Take a well-known cocktail whose first syllable sound matches the word “sky”, namely “cai”, change the last letter ‘H’ to a ‘J’ (for sound reasons), fuse it with a beautiful reddish sky at sunset and you get the (of course non-alcoholic) “Skypirin(h)ja”.
The photograph is of the sky over Callantsoog, North Holland, and the work is therefore part of the ‘Playing around with Callantsoog skies’ series. The SKY series explores the theme of “SKY” on three levels: visual, written, and sound.
[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.