MELTING IS HAPPENING FARAWAY

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 no 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.