Cerio's work goes far beyond showing us the effects of climate change; it examines the very condition of visibility and permanence in an era when all traces of the illusion of stability are being obliterated. Glaciers have served as a historical record of millennia of atmospheric dynamics, deposits of particles and minimal climate variations. Their progressive extinction is ultimately a foretaste of every sort of oblivion, every disappearance. Their tragedy is the tragedy of us all. The photograph is thus a minimal but necessary action, an attempt to salvage meaning at a moment in which we are witnessing its dissolution.