“With the melting of glaciers, the disappearance of necessary sea ice, and sea levels rising, our everyday actions, magnified, affect whether these ecological archives and ecosystems will survive. Climate change has forced Arctic and Antarctic species to migrate and adapt, though at a far quicker pace than adaption generally occurs, and migration of species creates inherent challenges to endemic/native species. Having experienced the immensity of Arctic glaciers, as well as the psychological devastation of standing on unmapped land, land that was until recently covered by a glacier, I wish to bring this experience home, to create understanding through experience and perception, to allow someone who may not have the opportunity to be in the physical space of a glacier, to be in the psychological space of a glacier. These collages are in part developed from exposing light sensitive paper to plastics and glass, using known pollutants of the sea to render the trapped gases stored in the layers of glaciers, gases which when studied illustrate the level of ecosystem health, gases that as we fail to act on climate change transform from stored information to lost evidence.”
untitled (frazil XLI), 2019
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