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 melt 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 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.
