I don't really know why I like this picture so much. Maybe it's the simplicity that appeals to me, or maybe it's because I've seen these two rocks ever since the first time I visited Ramsviklandet in the early 90s. Back then, I never photographed them – I just walked past them. The sea on the other side of the rock slab was too attractive. The horizon pulled me over the edge.

Sometimes it's hard to explain why an image means something. Maybe sometimes it's even an advantage. The feeling stays, under the skin, beyond technical explanations. It's not the lines, the light or the composition that makes me like this image – it's something else that triggers my curiosity.

Those two stones just lie there, still and unchanged, and perhaps have been since the last ice age, the Weichselian ice age, which released its grip on Bohuslän about 10,000 years ago. Just the thought of it feels monumental.

Their placement in the landscape feels almost as if someone carefully staged them for a camera. At the same time, they are so naturally camouflaged by their surroundings, so deeply a part of the place, that it feels self-evident. As if they have always been there, unwavering for 10,000 years.

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