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5 min 41 sec
The footage for Ice/Down was shot off the side of the US Coastguard Icebreaker Healy in the Arctic Ocean in 2008. At the time, and in this dense ice, the prospect of ice free summers in the Arctic was a distant prospect. In years since, the multi-year ice of the Arctic Ice Sheet has dwindled. As the ice recedes at greater speeds than ever imagined, the anxiety of our time simultaneously accelerates. We are moving at a clip, the ice in time.
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13 minutes
This video was shot in the Peruvian Amazon from a low raft on a pond inhabited by 3 anacondas. The sound is the ambient noise of the place: insects, the click of my camera shutter, and the sound of an airplane overhead that was tracking a radio collared jaguar in the vicinity. The video was part of a large body of work that reflects on how we understand remote landscapes through technology and media, the transformation of nature into an industrial or synthetic landscape and how nature is informed by the language of science. The color and structure of this piece is informed by maps that are made from great distances such as satellite, infrared and LIDAR imaging. In Anaconda Pond, the map and video have merged to create a semi-psychedelic landscape, the colors of the aerial map/model having been transposed onto the ground.
Shot in 2011 during “Arctic Nitrogen”, a scientific expedition conducted on the Arctic Ice sheet, “Under Ice” provides a brief glimpse into the world beneath the frozen layer of sea ice. As permafrost melts and shifts the oceans ecosystem just off Alaska’s Northern coast, the nitrogen cycle changes form, fueled by a population of microorganisms, diatoms and plankton.
Shot at sea somewhere between Barbados and French Guyana alongside a ship full of scientists studying carbon in the “Amazon Plume” (the water flowing from the Amazon River as it enters the sea). Of interest was the relationship between small organisms in the water column - phytoplankton and zooplankton (bacteria, diatoms,etc) and their effect on the nitrogen and carbon cycle.
…For the sea itself could seemingly care less. The zooplankton are going about their day as they slosh around in the currents- one beast among billions in the waves- for all we know comfortable in their role. It certainly brings into question what the point of anything is when you pull up a bucket of sea water and look under the microscope at a whole tiny dynamic world that, strangely, has a tight grip on our own. The air we breath is controlled, in some way by the little microscopic plant i looked at yesterday. ….