Morteratsch Glacier Cave, Glacial Wave
Morteratsch Glacier Cave, Glacial Wave
Eiger, The Mordwand in Winter
Deep beneath the Morteratsch, where daylight has no reach, the ice reveals a form that moves without motion — a frozen wave suspended in blue-tinted silence, sculpted by meltwater over centuries. The vaulted walls glow from within, translucent and layered, holding ancient air sealed more than sixteen hundred years ago. Every surface curves and folds like a sea arrested mid-swell. There is no sound here but the faint drip of time dissolving.
To stand inside this space is to witness something the glacier was never meant to show — and may never show again.
Height — Glacier tongue at approx. 2,050 m (6,726 ft); accumulation zone to approx. 4,049 m (13,284 ft)
First Scientific Measurement — 1878, systematic length-change recordings began
Coordinates — 46°24′ N, 9°56′ E
Range — Bernina Range, Engadin, Graubünden
The Edition
Limited to 15 signed originals and 2 Artist's Proofs — across all formats and dimensions. Once complete, no further originals will be produced.
Archival pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag. Diasec face-mount and alternative substrates available on request. Available up to 250 cm width.
Individually produced and hand-signed. Framing consultation and large-format installation guidance included.
Each original accompanied by a signed Certificate of Authenticity.
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