Fee Topographic

This topographic illustration abstracts the Fee Glacier at Längfluh into a quiet field of contours and shadow. Layered lines rise and fall across the surface, echoing the glacier’s crevasses, compressions, and slow movement downslope. Darker troughs suggest depth and fracture, while softer, pale planes imply accumulation zones where ice thickens and smooths.

Rather than depicting the glacier as a single mass, the image breaks it into rhythms and intervals, closer to a map than a photograph. The contours at ten metre intervals of elevation, translate alpine scale into something measured and legible. It is less a record of surface detail than an impression of structure and flow, capturing how the glacier occupies space, presses against the mountain, and reshapes itself over time.

SAAS FEE, SWITZERLAND / 46.0796° N, 7.8788° E