Posted on February 20, 2024 
by arslohgo
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View of the snow-covered horse pasture outside my kitchen window. It is snowing, and the shadows on the snow in the center of the picture resemble the face of Edward Snowden—so what we are seeing (at least what I am seeing) is SNOWden Land. Apparently an involuntary association, what the neurons in my head ultimately “think” when processing information is not really comprehensible to me.
The photo shows the surroundings as seen from the kitchen of my apartment in Bochum. The snowfall and the snow-covered landscape on this day bring up the image of Edward Snowden in my head in connection with the term ‘snow’ and lead to the creation of this work.
[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.