Posted on February 19, 2025 
by arslohgo
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This personalized variation of “Awesome Thing” also draws on the star theme. Logical, because it has been proven that we humans are nothing more than stardust, a (scientific) realization that Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young already expressed in their song “Woodstock” back in 1969: “…We are stardust, we are golden. We are billion year old carbon…” By integrating the image of the earth into the sequence of letters ‘b-d-a-y’ and placing it visually in the foreground, the appreciation of a past elementary event is created. A birth-day/b-earth-day (bˈɜːθde͡ɪ) is an awesome thing.
The background of the mini poster, as well as the earth, is represented by freely available images from the worldwide web. As in the various series, this single work explores the underlying theme on three levels: visual, written, and sound.
[A] The combination of various visual objects 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.