Aspects of Ice Part I

The images created before visiting Antarctica depict juxtaposed fragments of a wide variety of Antarctic imagery — early and recent explorers and artefacts, the areas of ice-free land, and aspects of human intervention. After the visit on the Bremen in January 1997 the focus is on ice forms: pancake ice, sastrugi (windblown frozen waves of ice on the plateau), pack ice, ice cliffs and ice shelf. The slow building up of paint is a metaphor of the slow layering of ice on the Antarctic plateau.