Glacial Melt
Glacial Melt IV
Glacial Melt II
Glacial Melt V
Glacial Melt VII
Glacial Melt (E.V.)
Glacial Melt VI
Svalbard Pieta
Glacial Melt III
Glacial Melt
"Glacial Melt" is a series of editioned, hand-pulled copper etchings inspired by my travel in the high Arctic. The experimental techniques I use to create the copper plates result in spontaneous and often uncontrollable fissures, mimicking the fracturing of ice sheets, glacial calving, and melt. Cracks, texture, and tone depict transformation and erosion. The process of creating each plate becomes a metaphor for the ever-changing connection between ice and water, solid and liquid states, and the cascading changes happening in the Arctic.