One of the pictures I made shows a blinded window which is wrapped or maybe decorated with shiny colourful printed papers. Tiny stickers with Halloween motifs are randomly stuck all over the paper: some show skulls, some show ghosts and some little witches riding on a broom. The paper is quite torn and maybe someone took a little scrap to write down his or her telephone number for someone just met in this place. I thought of it as an interesting composition, but not a spectacular scene, something which can be found in many party places and improvised clubs.

But as soon as one looks up the meaning of the described objects in this picture in an art history lexicon, your interpretation might follow a different path. The window is of course not only a window, but carries lots of meanings, probably most significant as a perspectival metaphor. The skull seems to be the most obvious symbol for death, decay and also as a reminder of our own mortality. This coincidence of meanings doesn't make much sense so far, death and perspective, and that in a nightclub?! Maybe its better to not know at all about these meanings and traditions, because you maybe never again feel like taking a picture of a flower.

I googled a bit more and found a Trompe-l'œil painting of the dead Dutch painter Cornelius Norbertus Gijsbrecht who painted The Reverse Side of a Painting in 1670, which reminded me in shape and composition of my picture of the blinded window. I find this reference for my image very interesting; maybe Gijsbrecht also thought of his work as just the back of a canvas?!