The image works to overcome absence and distance, while absence and distance are precisely the conditions that allow for closeness.

The in-situ experience of extinction and its visual representation share three conditions: fragmentation, accessibility, and transparency

Through these conditions, extinction becomes available to perception while remaining fundamentally partial and distant.

They allow me to encounter a world that I can never fully see or grasp—a condition that, paradoxically, makes possible a connection to the world as it is: unsettling, elusive, and yet deeply meaningful..