‘The disconnection from the ecosphere is forcing
human beings to experience the fragility of a belief in human existence beyond
the world; as if there is not a unity. The energy that we expend to gratify our
immediate impulses for pleasure, rapidly melts glaciers and their beauty. The
remote viewing of glaciers hydrofracturing is a spectacle on the computer
screen, but terrifying and inspiring of awe when massive, once frozen, glacial peninsulas
shatter off into the sea in actual physical space. The icy poles are furthest from
the equator, most distant from the human ear and eye and we do not hear when
glaciers are melting loudly. Their melting is loud because the fissure is
sudden and due to the subsequent sea-level rise, this ‘melt’ is impacting the
destiny of life forms in an unpredictable manner. We are unable to foresee how
the coastlines will appear to future generations.
To look at Caspar
David Friedrich's painting ‘The Sea of Ice’, reveals a mental landscape, a dynamic
snapshot of a state of perception. The melancholy of the landscape allows me to
sense the impermanence of reality, time lost and our relationship with our
immediate environment.
Referencing
Friedrich's piece, I record my perception of melting glaciers through an
intuitive process, using mixed media on different surfaces, involving natural elements
(heat and cold outside), body, airbrush, and typewriter. Simultaneously through
this process, I create a melancholic landscape of my consciousness and say
goodby to the familiar world. What is our world going to look like? Glacier
melting and climate change is happening in me, as well. This isn't the
depiction of the news broadcast from the outside, but rather the news
broadcasting from the inner channel.’