What Is Below (2025 - Ongoing)

A study in landscape and the human footprint from above. Inspiration from those moments when you are landing in an airplane and the ground slowly comes into focus. In my time as an alpinist I have developed a romantic understanding of seeing from above. In a poem from René Daumal I find more inspiration for this project:

“What is above knows what is below but what is below does not know what is above… One climbs, one sees. One descends, one sees no longer but one has seen.

There is an art of conducting oneself in the lower regions by the memory of what one saw higher up. When one can no longer see, one can at least still know.

—René Daumal, “A treatise of analogical alpinism”