Perito Moreno #11 2012 - 2013

Frank Thiel made this photograph, Perito Moreno #11, and it's like looking at a painting, all whites and blues. The texture is amazing, so many different tones and jagged marks. The scale is impressive: the wall of ice feels immense, and yet it’s captured in such detail that you can imagine Thiel spending hours looking, deciding where to stand, how to frame it. I see the way the light catches on the seracs, those towers of ice, and it makes me think about how glaciers are constantly shifting, melting, reforming. The dark lines running across the face of the glacier could be brushstrokes, capturing time and movement. This reminds me of Vija Celmins, who also has a similar process-based approach. Ultimately, art is an ongoing dialogue, a way of seeing and interpreting the world that embraces its inherent fluidity.