… Each shot represents one moment, one particular section from a wealth of data and events that could not in their entirety be captured in a depictive medium. This phenomenon is clearly emphasized for the viewer by the serial character of the "Notes". As in other groups of works he has created, Rappenecker is very interested in how we experience the sublime. While past art tended to trace the sublime in the sphere of nature, Rappenecker finds comparable properties in the domain of the modern mass media, which supply each and every individual with an insurmountable amount of data and information. ...