OF LOSS AND LONGING

A gentle fog coats the horizon.  A low sun reflects in the ice.  Crystals hanging in the air that is cold and crisp tickling the nose hair. With each new step the dense white mounds yield with shrieking protest rising up like an alarm….  

Via C19 travel restrictions and eco-tourism limitations I was forced to limit my planned Northern expeditions to online video. Most people of the world who will never have a first-hand experience of the Earth’s polar caps these online images define the populist arctic experience both now, and in the future once the ice caps have melted away. 

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As an online ECO-TOURIST I took photographs (screenshots) of my adventure. The vision of the person making the original video; the quality of their imaging technology; the fortitude of my online streaming connection and my digital imaging editing each contribute to shaping the final imagery just as time, weather, access, opportunity would. My environmental melancholia demands the memorialization of the icebergs as they "had" been.  This is an ongoing meditative process, collecting, coveting and preserving.