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 and translating the experience into paintings with thermochromic pigments in heated frames, art that fades like melting ice, reflecting our fragile climate.

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Entry 029: Thirty Strangers on a Forty-Nine-Meter Boat

“For here there are no days because there are no nights. One day melts into the next, and you cannot say this is the end of today and now it is tomorrow and that was yesterday.” – Christiane Ritter (A Woman in the Polar Night)

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Entry 028: Horsepower

Angst macht den Wolf größer, als er ist. (Fear makes the wolf look bigger) — German proverb

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Entry 027: The Pencil and the Speaker

D'arcy. Dolores. Florence. Herbert. Bono. All Wegbegleiter. Companions to me, unknown to them. They never knew I was in the room. They shaped it anyway.

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Entry 021: Monsters of the North

“I'll have you know I do the swearing on this ship. If I need your assitance I'll call you” – Capt. Wolf Larsen - The Sea Wolf

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