Luisa Keintzel - White Out

“When the sky carries the same color as the landscape, they become one.
He is telling about the White Out. First you lose your orientation, then your sense of balance.
You are falling repeatedly into the snow. Step by step you work your wayalong the path.
He pauses. Let his hands rest on the table and continues speaking in a calmer voice.
You also lose the sense of self. Everything blurs into the white, including yourself and consciousness.“

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“White Out” addresses the “end of the world” as a place of longing at the transition between dense, highly developed life and mythologies, between fully developed cultural landscapes and sensual landscapes at the rough and frayed edges. The self undergoes a transitory process on the way from subjective order to sensually perceptible places of longing and experiences a sharpened and realigned perception.
With photographs and writing, I captured the atmosphere and life realities at these locations.
I photographed in the Finnish Lapland, which symbolizes “the end of the world” to me.
In addition to photography, I collected shapes and created Asemic writing from them, which does
not follow any alphabet and therefore is not readable. In doing so, I create another narra- tive layer.
I found the shapes, among other things, as structures on walls, as remnants of paint or graffiti, or as traces in the snow. They are mostly traces left by humans, which makes it an indirect narration.

For my bachelor’s degree in the summer semester of 2023, I created a photo book that summarizes photographs, texts and writing.