Water, light, and movement
A day of abstracts
3 October 2018 – Day two, or is it three?
Time zones and timelines At some point during my trip, I realized that I never changed the date and time on my camera to reflect the European time zone. Photos I take […]
At the end of the day
Last impressions of the first day
Ymerbukta and Esmarkbreen
Views from a glacier front
Esmarkbreen – not quite monochrome
Along the glacier’s edge
Setting sails
2 October – Ymerbukta We left port yesterday afternoon with the motor but put up the sails quickly and fairly flew across the fjord. We helped with the sails – a token […]
The Divine Arctic Comedy, Heaven
Heaven Air Future Sublimate. Dissipate. Eliminate. Obviate. Retreat – Sublimate, v.: to pass directly from the solid state to the vapor state; archaic: to improve or refine, as in […]
The Divine Arctic Comedy, Purgatory
Purgatory Ice Present Millennial. Annual. Tangible. Visible. Advance – Water became ice. Masses of ice ranged from the north across oceans, continents, and islands; tongues extended from mountain tops […]
The Divine Arctic Comedy: Hell
A co-resident on the Arctic Circle asked me to write three essays to introduce her exhibit opening this June in the Montefalco Museum, Montefalco, Italy. The gallery has three rooms, one leading […]
And the rest of the crew
The people, part 3 Last but not least, this rounds out the cast. Twenty-eight residents and 11 crew members set sail for two weeks on the waters of the North Atlantic. Tight […]
