Description
A lone figure cares for a glacial iceberg frozen into sea ice. Known to indigenous Inuit as kassoq these are sublime formations of translucent ice, created under enormous pressure at the very base of the rapidly melting Sermersuaq (Greenland ice sheet). They’re likely to be millennia-old.
It’s one of a series of interventions in which the artist endeavours to clean these dying, disappearing nonhuman entities of fallen snow before their final journey to the sea. (Of course, we can only really ‘know’ the 10% of an iceberg that floats above the waterline.)
If glaciers retreat from Greenland’s ice fjords to instead terminate and melt on dry land, they will no longer calve their ice as icebergs.
Can we transform our relationship with Earth from a mindset of consumption & exploitation towards an ethos of cooperation & planetary stewardship instead? To prise open our conception of ‘nature’ sufficiently to accommodate more symbiotic approaches with(in) it? Inspired by philosopher Glenn Albrecht’s “Symbiocene” proposal the work offers some small vision of moving towards more collaborative human-nonhuman relationships in the future.
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