Glaciers!

Created over a long time in the empire of the cold to spread over the valleys, always transforming anew, living and conserving. Lying in the edges of the civilisation, they are hidden on our maps mostly as not cultivated, white spots, as places of the “eternal ice”. And nevertheless! Glaciers and ice, what a strong symbol of the absolutely transient! A rare coincidence will awake something never seen. Maybe we will be witness of an incomparable kind of light. Unfortunately only a short life will be granted to these new creations of beauty. It will force us to stop, to gaze in disbelief, maybe even shudder. Soon the law of nature will alter every discovered piece of art and all material remembrance will be breaking up.

The Upper Engadin is located in the southeast of Switzerland. From the village of Pontresina you can reach the Morteratsch valley in a short time by train. A small road leads in less than an hour up the valley to the glacier tongue of the Morteratsch Glacier. A new winter cycle has begun. The small ice cave on the western edge of the glacier's end shows this in the form of ground ice. The attention applies for a good while completely to the left, outside side. With its extremely limited range of colours within an almost single blue, this image seems unreal, almost fairy-tale. The main source of light penetrates gently and diffusely through the ice wall in the background. The ice terraces with their emphasized drawn edge lines and an almost tangible space let you pause and marvel.