God knows how many frames per second flicker past our daily perception. But it is as if at the brief moments I'm talking about, suddenly and disconcertingly we se between two frames. We come upon a part of the visible which wasn't destined for us. Stories of fairies, sprites, ogres were a human attempt to come to terms with this co-existence. Hunters are continually aware of it and so can read signs we do not see.
Children feel it intuitively, because they have the habit of hiding behind things.
There they discover the interstices between different sets of the visible. Dogs, with their running legs, sharp noses and developed memory for sounds, are the natural frontier experts of these interstices. Their eyes, whose message often confuses us for it is urgent and mute, are attuned both to the human order and to other visible orders. Perhaps this is why, on so many occasions and for different reasons, we train dogs as guides. Probably it was a dog who led Sammallahti to the moment and place for taking of each picture.