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Why Infrared photographs?

It is so cold, yet you can see heat. Cold on top, hot below. The work might be understood as dual gauge detection process for extreme opposing forces. Temperature duality. Fake snow in Iceland might allude to deceptive elements, or natural forces, hence the infrared, attempting to reveal the invisible. What is revealed by using the infrared filter is quite subtle, not really that spectacular once the cliched “snow-like foliage” visually exhausted. The funny thing now is that all there is to photograph now in Skagastrond is snow and objects covered in snow. (As I write this it is like a blizzard outside, evidently winter has hit early). Maybe this could be declared fake infrared. A new type of visuality might be assumed through the use of infrared filters, in which they “can effectively cut the visible rays of light and thus permit transmission of the red region of the light spectrum only”.