BALD EAGLE /Alaska – “… This immense landscape has a unique ambivalence of threat and a feeling of superiority in breath-taking, overwhelming beauty. The person becomes a tiny part of this landscape, an unimportant, self-forgetting namelessness.
The eagles, circling high up in the sky, belong in this landscape, in whose being we see
a synonym for so much of our human desires and sensitivities: the wild, powerful freedom
and independence loftily overlooking everything, but also the inherent loneliness which is
the price for such pride.
I travelled for days by jeep and on foot through this giant nature, drawing, by myself at
night and only in this way able to perceive a piece of the truth of this country unprotected
and unaltered.
There are moments of deep emotion in respect of creation which come from the same well
which feeds religiousness …”
Frank Roedel
