The exploration of ephemerality and duration can be found in many of Werner Schrödl's works, including his early series Whyte Avenue. This consists of seven snapshots taken from the window of his temporary studio in Brooklyn onto the brightly lit Whyte Avenue at night, where sometimes wild scenes between pimps and prostitutes took place. Playing an experimental game with reality, for Schrödl it could not remain with these photos. So he later placed and photographed miniature figures in frozen action on top of the original photographs, in which only fleeting apparitions, blurred people in motion can be seen, thus adding at least a second time level. In these mini-model worlds, moments in time that were originally captured once become "permanent" situations, as they (could) play out similarly again and again over a long period of time. Through fictional and staged elements, however, it is simultaneously stated that in an unstable world nothing is binding, nothing is certain, nothing is permanent.
(Petra Noll, 2013)