The Arctic Blog – Ghosts of the Ice
Hey, so glad you made it! Here you can follow my 2026 Arctic journey aboard Svalbard’s waters, exploring remote landscapes through my residency.
Entry 051: Day 15: Please Remember to Sign Off
"Some memories are realities, and are better than anything that can ever happen to one again." – Willa Cather, My Ántonia
Entry 049: Day 13: Let the Grass Have It
"In nature nothing exists alone." — Rachel Carson, Silent Spring
Entry 048: Day 12: One of a Thousand
“You must have gazed on the deadness of all things to grasp their livingness” — Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night
Entry 047: Day 11: In As Good Order
“How varied are the experiences one lives through in the Arctic”. – Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night
Entry 046: Day 10: The Wild Ones
“The sea does not reward those who are too anxious.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Gift from the Sea
Entry 045: Day 09: The Stones Go First
“We are ruled by the forces of chance and coincidence” — Paul Auster
Entry 044: Day 08: Out of the Water
But 'tis strange. And oftentimes, to win us to our harm, The instruments of darkness tell us truths, Win us with honest trifles, to betray 's. In deepest consequence. – Shakespeare. Macbeth
Entry 043: Day 07: The Bear and the Bird
"The Arctic does not yield its secret for the price of a ship's ticket." – Christiane Ritter, A Woman in the Polar Night
Entry 042: Day 06: What the Ship Remembered
"The least we can do is try to be there." — Annie Dillard, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Entry 041: Day 05: The Evidence
"Have you seen the snow leopard? No! Isn't that wonderful?" — Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard
Entry 040: Day 04: Ice Is Right
"In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks." – John Muir
Entry 039: Day 03: No Ground
"The sea, once it casts its spell, holds one in its net of wonder forever." – Jacques Cousteau
Entry 038: Day 02: Good Morning, Good Morning
“How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean." – Arthur C. Clarke
Entry 037: Day 01: The Pole in the Room
"One learns from the sea how little one needs, not how much." – Robin Lee Graham, Dove
Entry 036: Day Zero, The Bear on the Belt
"Adventure is allowing the unexpected to happen to you."
— Richard Aldington
Entry 035: The Dark Came Back
But it is also true that one will never experience in the Arctic anything that one has not oneself brought there. — Christiane Ritter (A Woman in the Polar Night)
Entry 034: Going Dark
“Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answer." – Rainer Maria Rilke (Letters to a Young Poet)
Entry 033: The Last Time
"Memory is the space in which a thing happens for the second time." — Paul Auster, Moon Palace