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This is a KGB spy camera from the 1950's. It has a satellite transmitter which sends the pictures to the Kremlin in Moscow. This is the type of camera that a spy would use on a high risk mission that involved situations where the spy might be captured or killed. I interpreted this object as a political product. It was influenced by the way the Americans and the Russians spied on each other, or at least how the movies say they did. The people and scientists of the era would have worked for a long time to make it. If the product, or a variation of it does not exist, it could be a product of science fiction

Paul Klee, the painter of this work, was a Swiss painter who spent most of his adult life in Germany until he was expelled by the Nazis in 1933. His paintings are not entirly abstract, but not realistic either. This painting, called Ad Parnassum, made in 1932, was the conclusion of a seris of works wich fetured color constructions which he called 'magic squares'. In these he applied his theories. Ad Parnassum was inspired by the gate to Mount Parnassus, the home of the greek god Apollo. It also may be inspired by the Pyramids which Klee saw in 1928, and by a mountain near Klee's home. In this time, the 1990's, I interpret this painting as something literal. To me it looks like a mountain. The sun is in the background along with the red line, which I think is possibly a desart in the distance.

The Golden Fish was painted by Paul Klee in 1925. The fish was supposed to repersent him because it was respected by the other fish around it. The fish was supposed to be magical and had runic, or magical signs on its body, scarlet fins, and a pink flower as an eye. To me, in the 1990's, this seems like a spiritual painting. The fish looks like the sort of god that people could worship. It could also be something like a good luck charm, or a voodoo sign.