An in water submerged portrait surprises us with an intense almost eery encounter. The photographed woman looks the viewer straight in the eye from under the water, Ophelia-l Installation view at Kunsthaus Interlaken ike, peaceful but unsettling. Slowly the emulsion of the C print dissolves and we can literally observe the decay of the photograph. The disturbingly beautiful decay of the under water portrait references subtly and unequivocally the transitoriness of being.