Man has always sought to be exposed to the sublime, because it is only in what we can’t dominate, where we manage to be in real contact with our own limits. Nature is uncontrollable and often ferocious, and perhaps, the untameable and overwhelming is what pushes us to look further. Are we able to contemplate a tragedy that reveals the heartbeat of the earth itself? The project The Four Seasons of the Tajogaite Volcano in Eighty-five Views proves that we can; a volcano can be heard and documented through all seasons, the wat Hokusai did with Mount Fuji almost 200 years ago. After all, the photographer's eyes involve and, more importantly, sharpen all the senses. A work like this, made at the foot of the event, urges to weave something more complex, involving both the landscape and the people who inhabit it. In the style of ukiyo-e, the Japanese prints that represent the ephemeral, fleeting and transitory world, we are shown how intuition reveals the different layers of meaning that images hold.