Snowland
The subject matter of each of these photos appears to be straightforward, but in a way that they are provoking reason to come to the assistance of perception in order to conceptualize what we see, thus completing the images. E.g. the three images may be read as representing respectively the subjects
evanescence,
appearance, and
togetherness or as depicting
many (in a row), (the manifoldness of)
one united whole, and (the many making up)
an ensemble.
In the first image everything is dissolved in light, not in the light of an enlightenment which would point out the details, but in a levelling, all-absorbing substance without any discriminability and individuality, in a universal Lethe-like matter, as it were. The gradual disappearing of the many trees and their filigree branches evokes a delicacy of feeling considering their evanescence.
The second image is the pièce de résistance when it comes to magnificent appearance of a detailed, even somehow chaotic manifoldness hold together in and by
one individual. The field road next to it subtly doubles the symbolic potential of the scenery: a road of life, representing a succession in time, and a tree of life representing the complexity of the richly developed features in an individual, both against the backdrop of an anonymous, quasi unformed matter.
In the third image the many trees are neither
one thing nor just many unconnected things: they are forming an ensemble which induces the viewer to give the grove a sense of togetherness in the face of the ambient white monotony. The faint curves of the snow-covered country even give the impression of the grove as drifting on a sea, as if this little community were not in control of its destination.