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ONE SERIES / 21 PHOTOGRAPHS

Blue
Screen.

One lamp.
Twenty-one encounters with blue.

Light, lines and blur. A photographic experiment in how images acquire meaning through the way we look and the language we bring to them.

Photographs by Mario V.W.B.R. Obst
Erfurt ·

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A blue-lit, spherical lamp centre with a network of lines and bright points of light, surrounded by broad petal-like shapes.
01 / The blue centre · Enlarge image ↗

See the same thing.
Discover something different.

All 21 photographs show the same blue lamp. They vary the framing, the placement of lines and the sharpness of points of light. What first looks like repetition becomes a sequence of small differences when viewed side by side.

The titles invite a particular reading. The work pages distinguish a description of what is visible from an interpretation you can unfold. Look first, then read. Does the text change what you see?

The series

01–21 / Every image can be enlarged

All 21 photographs can be enlarged. Six have detailed commentaries.

A blue-lit, spherical lamp centre with a network of lines and bright points of light, surrounded by broad petal-like shapes.
BLUE SCREEN / 01

The blue centre

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Close-up of the blue lamp surface: sharply defined branching lines on the left and across the centre, with soft points of light to the right and below.
BLUE SCREEN / 02

A map of light

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Blurred close-up of the blue lamp with curved pale lines, dark gaps and scattered white-blue patches of light.
BLUE SCREEN / 03

A memory of focus

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Slanting lines across the blue lamp centre, with bright patches of light and a broad blue area on the left.
BLUE SCREEN / 04

Diagonal in blue

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Bright points and fine curved lines against a dark lamp centre, with a softly rendered blue area along the right edge.
BLUE SCREEN / 05

Loose connections

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Soft white-blue points of light around a dark centre, with fine pale lines crossing in the lower part of the image.
BLUE SCREEN / 06

Light without an outline

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The curved lamp surface runs diagonally through the image, with blue petal-like shapes on the left and several points of light on the right.
BLUE SCREEN / 07

A tilted orbit

A broad curved edge of the blue lamp centre surrounds dark areas, pale lines and small points of light.
BLUE SCREEN / 08

An open curve

An arched blue surface with short elongated light traces above and a group of bright points near the lower centre.
BLUE SCREEN / 09

Rising traces

The round lamp centre is cropped on the right; large blue petal-like shapes and dark gaps fill the left side.
BLUE SCREEN / 10

A displaced centre

A broad blue arc divides the photograph, with bright points and curved lines clustered to its right.
BLUE SCREEN / 11

Light at the edge

Blurred pale lines run through a dark blue curve, with several white-blue patches of light below the centre.
BLUE SCREEN / 12

A network in motion

A large dark curve with blue edges, fine pale lines and points of light to the right and below the centre.
BLUE SCREEN / 13

An inner curve

The curved blue lamp centre fills the lower and right parts of the image, with broad petal-like shapes along the top.
BLUE SCREEN / 14

A luminous curve

Elongated light traces run almost vertically across the blue lamp surface, with large blue areas still visible on the left.
BLUE SCREEN / 15

Vertical shimmer

A clearly defined lower curve with branching lines frames a dark centre and bright points of light.
BLUE SCREEN / 16

Held light

A tilted blue curve with elongated reflections; broad blue areas meet black gaps on the left.
BLUE SCREEN / 17

Slanting into depth

Soft vertical light traces along the left edge of the sphere, with a cluster of bright points to the right of centre.
BLUE SCREEN / 18

A sliding boundary

A strongly blurred blue lamp shape, with elongated light patches in the centre and dark wedge-shaped gaps on the left.
BLUE SCREEN / 19

Blue in passing

The lower edge of the blue lamp centre shows a distinct network of lines, with large blue petal-like shapes beneath it.
BLUE SCREEN / 20

At the edge of the sphere

Softly blurred white-blue patches of light and curved lines around a dark centre, with vertical light traces on the left.
BLUE SCREEN / 21 · FINALE

A signal suspended

HISTORICAL FYI EXPERIMENT

One subject.
Several possibilities.

In the earlier FYI experiment, Blue Screen connected photographic observation with a question about language and the web: What can be observed in an image, what does a text add, and what do search engines or AI systems later take from it?

Accurately repeating a text would not, by itself, demonstrate visual understanding. Search observations for this series are documented in field notes 040, 041 and 042 . These dated observations do not establish current search visibility.

Photographs: Mario V.W.B.R. Obst. Taken in Erfurt on . Titles and texts: Aik in dialogue with Mario. Editorial responsibility: Mario. The published image files contain no EXIF data.