It was clear that Kaluza, who is also an author, transferred the principle of the sequence, the juxtaposition of central perspectives, also to human actions: In the "Bildstücke", a word that combines image and play, he photographed scene after scene from his own plays and joined them together as usual to form a long narrative strip of images. For each piece, several thousand photographs are created of what is happening on stage, which are then joined together to form that seamless strip of images. At the beginning of each photographic piece is the textual and visual concept. As in a play, the dialogues between the protagonists are written by the artist, and the scenery and stage space are also realized. During the actual production that follows, the performance is photographed every second by a centrally located camera.
The working method used to create these images may seem cinematographic, but the final result is different. - It consists of a single pictorial space in which the individual scenes of the plot are interwoven. - By eliminating the horizontal borders of the individual photos, the temporal limitation of these also ceases to exist, in favor of the unity of time and space of the overall image. Although the photos were taken at different times, they also document the chronology of the action, but the static overall image can be perceived "at a glance" in an exhibition. In this sense, the actions visible in the photos progress to a rhythmic form in the context of the pictorial piece. For example, the juxtaposition of the acting protagonists creates this rhythmic impression, just as the constant horizontal repetition of the scenic aesthetics creates the impression of an oversized (meta)stage.
