In the same year he wrote about the watercolour cycle that Uecker created on a trip through Patagonia: “The cycle is an increase in the experiences that I associate with cold, heat, weather turbulence, confinement in clouds and the visibility of just two meters, the sudden illumination that reveals a vastness stretching over hundreds of kilometers, and with the optical confusion, which occurs because the mountains and their peaks appear so close and then so far again. “