SWELL
China marker on drafting film, 36” x 24,” June 2014
Svalbard, Norway 

Created site-specifically, Swell documents the textural surface of high-arctic icebergs through the use of frottage. This work indexically records the surface of ancient glacier ice— detailing water-lapped patterns and inscribed brine channels (or brine veins) micro habitats for ice algae . This work was created, in situ in Svalbard, Norway as a resident with the Arctic Circle Program.

Thanks to

  • Arts Nova Scotia.for their generous support of this work

  • Brittany Ransom and fellow Artic Circle Program participants

  • The extraordinary Shoshannah White (https://www.shoshannahwhite.com) for exhibition photographs of ‘Black Ice’ at Space Gallery in Portland, Maine

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