My interest is ice and water and what we can learn of these common substances we we look closely. In this suite of images, I’m cataloging the faces of ice in my home region, Fairbanks, Alaska.
Permanently frozen water helps stabilize Earth’s climate. Ice and water are among the primary drivers that shape the landscape. When explored for its aesthetic capacities ice has much to share. Transitions, fragility, tipping points, ephemerality, movement, transparency, loss, rebirth, the passage of time.
The aesthetics inherent in ice present opportunities to reflect not only the beauty in common substances but to also consider a world without it.
Linked by ambiguity and abstract qualities, the work provokes imaginative and emotional responses to the obscure and ephemeral.
The work adds to the discussion about whether human enterprise is threatening the planet’s ability to sustain us. Amplifying the need for stewardship, my images collaborate with the power of imagination. The images expose deeper realms of what may be at risk; they are expressions of values in situ.
