Gottfried Helnwein Response pt.1

This photo shows a man repelling on the face of a woman, The man has no harness and only a single rope. The woman is showing no / neutral emotion. I believe this photo is a representation of artistic imagery seeing as this couldn't actually happen in real life. I think this painting means that meeting a new person is basically like climbing a mountain, You have no idea what you're really getting into until you're about a third of the way up. I believe the artist's intent with this was to place a sense of "smallness" in the viewers mind, maybe to humble the viewer. The image says to me that we are all just explorers trying to find a path that best suits us. The size difference between the man and the woman adds to my interpretation by giving ME that humbling sense of what could be if you let your imagination run free.