NORTHLAND PROJECT
Artist’s book - Transmission from elsewhere
For a year leading up to my Northland residencies, I was captivated by a live webcam in Svalbard, which is located inside the Arctic Circle. The webcam pans a continuous mountain panorama from atop the Nordic Institute in the center of the settlement . Throughout the dark season, and into the light season I kept my eyes trained on the landscape I was about to visit IRL. I created an artist’s book in response to what I was seeing, a transmission from elsewhere. The QR code connects the viewer’s eye to Svalbard “in real time” through a screen.
Related blog post: Transmitting an Invisible Landscape
Northland Journal, Sept-Oct 2017
Northland Journal transcribed. September - October 2017. Starts with my arrival in Svalbard, Norway for a 1 month residency at Galleri Svalbard, through the month of October, in Siglufjordur, Iceland at Herhus residency. The bracketed words and phrases are part of an ongoing project about how we retrieve thoughts and memory from our personal archives, and how computing might be used to re-assemble, and re-shape meaning. The word cloud on this website’s home page expands on this thinking.
Residency in Svalbard, Norway
A live recording from September, 2017.
Residency in Iceland
Related blog posts: Northland-1, Northland -2, Northland -3
These works on paper come from a residency at Herhusid in North Iceland in October, 2017. Exhibited at Twenty-two Gallery in Philadelphia in May, 2018.
Artist’s book - Atmospheric Phenomena in the Arctic Sky
In 1820 William Scoresby published an account of arctic exploration, the book is in the collection at the Library Company of Philadelphia. He wrote detailed descriptions of the ice-scape, and included some sketches of unusual atmospheric phenomena caused by the angle of the sun, the presence of moisture or ice crystals in the air, and the interplay of temperatures between land, ocean and sky. In one sketch a mirage of a sailing ship, floated, inverted, above a distant horizon. It became the subject of this single-sheet folded book. A small variable edition using powdered graphite, stencils and laser printing. 5.5” x 4.25”, 2017.
“The atmosphere... in consequence of the warmth, being in a highly refractive state...
A great many curious appearances were presented by the land and icebergs.
The most extraordinary effect was the distinct inverted image of a ship in the clear sky.”
Arctic Circle Residency, June, 2018
Slow moving to still
The Arctic Circle residency takes place aboard a barquentine sailing ship that departs from Svalbard, Norway and sails into the arctic archipelago. It was a breathtaking experience that I continue to slowly process. This video begins to summarize some of the moods and memories of being in the Arctic Circle.
Artist’s book- 71°N 23°E
In April 2015, the world’s largest heavy-lift ship ferried Goliat, the world’s largest floating offshore oil platform from South Korea to Norway. The scale of this behemoth inspires both awe and dread.
Goliat’s presence in the Arctic is charged with meaning, yet most people will never see it. In this book Goliat materializes on the horizon at 71°N 23°E to take its place in our collective environmental imaginary of the Arctic.
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Related blog post: 71°N 23°E
Glacier, 36” x 76”, woodcut.