“Win background preliminary study” is the result of the first considerations for a Windows wallpaper—in the state of the still unfinished theme, so to speak, but which already represents an independent (different) theme in this form. Once the initial ideas are in my head, I follow what I call the “Royal Triangle principle R.E.X.”

[R]eveal the underlying idea and create a concept: on the one hand, the wallpaper should have a reference to the familiar living environment and also depict a transition into another, the digital world.

[E]mbed the individual components of the overall concept into a blank sheet of paper/blank screen: the individual components are a photo of the path leading around the park/garden of the property where I live, a photo of the sky above the property with a remarkable cloud formation, and the image of a door intended to represent the transition.

e[X]ecute the necessary works to implement the concept: the photos of the path and the section of sky have been modified so that they merge into one another and it looks as if the tree trunk in the right foreground, which has been struck by lightning and broken off, extends into the sky. At this point, I decided that this image was worthy of remaining as a landscape work in its own right. With the wallpaper in mind, the only thing left to do was to incorporate the transition/passage into this work in the next step (see Win Surface Background).