On the lake (elusive space)

The freezing of the white lake (Lago Bianco ) in the Swiss alpes is a nature spectacle creating a new elusive world. What can photography add to this visual sensation already created by nature? ("Art does does not reproduce the visible but makes things visible", Paul Klee). This is my attempt to photographically approach this task. I decided to put two pure landscape photographs (untouched and touched/scratched) at the beginning and the end of this narrative series, basically to frame the central photographs that are showing the encounter of living creatures (man and dog) with the ice world. The "things" that are (intentionally or unintentionally) made visible: Man and dog as representing the perceptive focus of the nature event, their astonishment, pleasure and fear. The landscape is elusive, the combination of the "real" landscape and its mirror image on the ice, the merging of frozen lake and sky, ...the incidental pleasure of man and dog (concrete) arising from the aesthetics of the smooth surface, their shy desire not only to touch and invade this space, but to glide and fly over it, literally without friction.