This seascape presents a horizontally divided composition of sea and sky rendered in muted tones of gray, blue, and brown. Richter employs his characteristic photo painting technique, translating a photographic source into oil paint through deliberate blurring and soft focus that obscures the precise boundary between water and atmosphere. The work exemplifies the artist's investigation of perception and representation, where the indistinct horizon line and hazy atmospheric conditions challenge the viewer's ability to distinguish between documentary observation and painterly abstraction. The subtle tonal gradations and diffuse quality evoke the contingency of vision itself, suggesting that seeing is as much an act of interpretation as of direct perception.