DEEP TIME

These 40”x60” pairs are from my most recent Deep Time project based on a January 2015 expedition to the Patagonian Ice field of Argentina.  I am contrasting the concept of the deep past with the present  - perhaps my most metaphoric, abstract endeavor. 

The left represents the history of evolutionary planet memory where the pace of change happens over millions of years. Trekking on mountainous terrain in Argentina, I found seabed fossils embedded along the trail overlooking Upsala Glacier. Climbing along both Eqi and Ilulissat Glaciers in Greenland, I photographed banded, and striated granite bedrock, once covered in ice thousands of years ago. The right stands for the present – our 21st century fraught with environmental challenges. These compositions of ice, water and till express the landscape as body, landscape as mortal with potential to decay. They were all taken on top of Southern Patagonia’s Viedma glacier on one day - yet represent all the melting glaciers I have witnessed in the Polar Regions.