Atlas

While considering these panoramic views of various, not further located mountains,

there occurs a vagueness regarding their spatial concepts: Proximity, distance and

the volumes expanding forward or backward become ambivalent, pretty much as

the point of view and the vertical orientation do. This ambiguity results from

a rotated optical axis, mostly of 180 degrees, which is not that apparent at first glance,

combined with a pronounced clipping of the motives.

The distinct clipping, shaping stretched horizontal formats and releasing the image

from its local and spatial context, causes its increase, and thus renders it floating.

On another level these works challenge the trust in photographic images being valid

and clearly definite and at the same time challenge one’s faith in visual perception 

being subject to a certain inertia as well as indeterminacy.

Yet just this indeterminacy doesn’t mean a handicap, but creates a welcome dither

releasing various ways of perception.