20 de juny 2012

el vídeo dels dimecres... oda als guardes

L'Ostrander Ski Hut, al Parc Nacional de Yosemite, sembla una bona inversió, si més no per somnis o per posar a la llista... En Howard Weamer n'ha estat el guarda durant 35 hiverns i en aquest petit gran vídeo de Jonathan Burhop s'hi recullen algunes boniques reflexions i s'hi sent aquell soroll que fa quan neva...

Hi arribava el 25 de novembre de 1974, i escrivia: "Arrived in time to unlock the door by last light and frantically opened windows so I could see enough to find matches. The lake has already won me and I will be sorry to see its ever-changing surface, more subtle as liquid than solid, harden into ice then acquire a blanket of snow. Perhaps only a photographer’s prejudice, since freezing and framing destroys the life of the lake just as surely as words fail to express or suggest – or best remind. Trust readers will forgive. Close this record and watch. Somewhere an analogy."