Am 13.07.2012 15:02, schrieb clipka:
> I guess you answered the question before already: Why "the blue flower"?

Yes ;)

Usually I do hate it to give more than a hint for possible 
interpretations but in this case a bit of explanation might be in place:

"The Blue Flower" - "Die blaue Blume" was coined by the German 18th 
century writer Novalis. The phrase is a metaphor for for search for the 
unreachable, unfulfilled love and desire.
Especially a desire for a "simple world" including an idealized and 
naive picture of nature and the middle ages was characteristic for the 
early German romantic period.
And those ideas (within contemporary esoteric and anti-scientific 
tendencies) have still quite some impact on the cultural and political 
situation in the present while on the other hand already German late 
romantic poets and philosophers (e.g. Heinrich Heine) did use an ironic 
take on this naive world view.

The mixed forest trees seen within the image would have been a common 
view in the 18th century German low mountain range. But nowadays no such 
combination of trees and shrubs does exist anymore in the wild.
You'll need either a time-machine or CGI to do this shot ;)

So there is an image titled "The Blue Flower" that carefully avoids do 
show any blue flower.

-Ive

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