Treasure hunter and the snowglass ball.

That was really a lot of fun again. Set design designed, sewn, painted, built, snow cannon tinkered, and then our mermaid placed in the structure and photographed through the porthole.

Our idea was based on a snow glass ball. In our imagination, a treasure hunter looks at the dreamed gold treasure through a porthole.

Is he dreaming or is it real? A mermaid swims in front of him and watches over his gold treasure. Where does this scene come from? Wasn't he already as a boy full of fascination looking into his sister's snow glass ball and was turning it over and over to trigger a drifting snow in the ball? Wasn't there also a mermaid and a treasure full of gold in the snow glass ball? And why did he become a treasure hunter again?

He is now been for 275 days at sea, with very little sleep, scanning the ocean floor, with no sighting of a shipwreck, and is daydreaming of what was and what will come.

Copyright: Manfred Ehrenlechner Photography / Photoworks-Manfredi
Photographer: Manfred Ehrenlechner
Hair & Make-Up Artist: Karin Kavanagh
Model: Kathy Köstlin
Set construction: Team Photoworks

This work was part of an art project from 2011 - 2013.

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