These icebergs no longer exist.
They wear their path in sediment striations, dimpled surfaces, compressed blue stripes devoid of air, some have toppled as they carve their unique path of disintegration and decay, melting and drifting, eroded by sea currents, the elements and time.
Observing atmospheric activity, I photographed these icebergs which had come adrift from the Antarctic Peninsula land ice mass, an homage to Iceberg A-68 (6000 sq km) which calved from Antarctica’s Larsen C ice shelf in 2017, by 2021 no significant fragments remained.
While the work references changes in climate, global temperature rises and disappearing ice at the poles, it also references broader themes in my work of the cycles of life and death, and the coalescing and dissipation of natural systems.
Ice is a Metaphor for Change captures the process of transformation, in recording changes of state in material (ice) and process (melting).
Medium: Cyanotype on 300gsm Hahnemuhle, 2021–2023
Size: 78cm x 53cm (18 sheets), linear (78 x 954cm), grid (234 x 318cm), edition of 2
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