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View from my kitchen window: Sky at sunrise in February, one of various variants of “Behind the Curtain.” A characteristic of these variants are the recurring electricity pylons (in varying numbers), which—like the trees, when visible—stand for life energy in a figurative sense.The disappearing moon, which merges with the sun, generates the image of a time of high humidity and persistent heavy rainfall in the composition of the two terms 'moon' and 'sun', excluding one of its two 'o's—the 'Monsun' in German (monsoon)…a play on words in the face of the dawn picture.The...


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View from my kitchen window: Sky at sunrise in February, one of various variants of "Behind the Curtain." A characteristic of these variants are the recurring electricity pylons (in varying numbers), which—like the trees, when visible—stand for life energy in a figurative sense. Continuing the 'view from the kitchen window' theme—the time between 4 and 6 a.m. (either I wasn't in bed by then or I was already up again) is the best time of day for me, with the exception of the winter months. In a gadda da vida” is said to have originally been ‘In the garden of Eden’....


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Undoubtedly a still life: a wooden bench in the sunlight in the middle of a meadow—were it not for the short text and the bank logos burned into the backrest. In German, both the term 'Bank' and the adjective 'gemein' are used ambiguously. 'Bank' stands for a bench and also for a financial institution. In connection with the logos engraved in the wood, the object 'bench' is transformed into the institution 'bank'. In this work, 'common' is used on the one hand in the sense of ordinary, on the other hand in the sense of indelicate or indecent (business). Thus we see here an ordinary...


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As the title of the work indicates, this work is designed as a background image for use on computers. The photograph is taken on the coast of Callantsolog, North Holland, and the door to and from the sea is actually a picture of the patio door to my vacation home.[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...


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This collection is a kind of add-on to “beware the hog” and presents a variety of transformations that result from the exchange of a single letter in the title phrase.The warning signs are not really to be taken seriously, although one or two could well be real—“beware of dog” is a common warning, but not really in the ambiguity presented here. Since the term is sometimes based on more than two meanings by changing the initial letter, in these cases there are two signs with the same title. The individual signs should not be overloaded too much, hence the limitation to two meanings.The...


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Take a well-known warning sign as a motif, exchange just one letter of the title and the result is interesting/funny, occasionally also meaningful transformations. The starting point for this work is the warning sign “Beware of (the) dog”. So what I did was nothing more than exchange the first letter of the word 'dog' for the letter 'h', which resulted in the first work of the "Beware of (the) ?og" collection.On the one hand, 'hog' refers to the animal ('Schwein' in German), on the other hand, 'hog' is used colloquially to refer to a motorcycle ('Bock' or 'Mühle'). The letter...


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“Global Pressure" at first glance, it's about the international press. The international daily newspapers and the lettering “Press” seem to indicate this. Daily newspapers and the press present and symbolize a worldwide event, which only comes to the fore by adding the surname of the Scottish singer and guitarist Midge Ure (singer of Ultravox in the 1980s, among others) to the term 'Press'. The highlighted letters 'URE' in the title serve as a reference to the name, but is only helpful if the name is known... “Global Pressure” can be associated with the pressure of financial...


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"Awesome Thing"—the embedding of the earth from a space perspective in the context of a star in the process of formation generates the theme of this work. 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...


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"Tolkien 01A"—What you see is the skyline of New York City, from which the head of a character from the Middle-earth saga of Tolkien emerges. Together with the 5-letter fragment 'NEWY', this head forms the city name. The grayish overall picture conveys an ambivalent mood - not only because of the orc head. In literature, orcs symbolize evil, cruelty, violence and death. The dark side of this cosmopolitan city is reflected in the tonal combination of text and orc (head). For decades - especially from the 1970s to the 1990s - the city resembled a Moloch, characterized by murder,...


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"Treetop & the Crow-n" shows a view of the sky behind a top of a tree. Tree' plus 'crown' form the German word for the English 'treetop'—'Baumkrone', also the English word 'crown' itself  refers to a treetop in botanical usage. Tree and sky are the habitat of the (zoological) crow, which in turn is part of the word 'crown'. The crown floating above the crow's head is meant to represent the bird's outstanding position in the animal kingdom. Their intelligence, their ability to use tools, to solve problems and to communicate, their life in complex social structures and their...


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