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.
Entry 023: Being Creative and What Comes Next
“The right moment does not come before the work. The right moment is the work, already in motion.” – RMK
Entry 022: Kin: Conversations With People Who Cannot Hear Me
"The dead are not absent, they are invisible." — Victor Hugo
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
Special Essay: This Is Not America, But Here’s What We Can Do About It Today
Never doubt that a small group of thoughtful, committed citizens can change the world. Indeed, it is the only thing that ever has. – Margaret Mead
Entry Nineteen: High North, High Tension
“Mars is not a Plan B. It is a monument to distraction and fantasy”. – RMK
Entry Eighteen: The Lie of “Raising Awareness”
“I don’t think art should be comfortable. It should be unsettling.” — David Bowie
Entry Seventeen: The Music Behind Ghosts of the Ice
“Oh, tell me, we both matter, don't we?” – Kate Bush
Entry Sixteen: Why Social Media Can’t Hold Scale
“Attention is the rarest and purest form of generosity.” – Simone Weil
Entry Fifteen: What I Fear Most (And What I Don’t)
If you are afraid, do it anyway. – Marina Abramović
Entry Fourteen: The Arctic Before the Artists
“What we see changes what we know. What we know changes what we see.” – Jean Piaget
Entry Thirteen: When I Finally Understood What Was Disappearing
“We do not inherit the earth from our ancestors; we borrow it from our children.” — Native Proverb
Entry Twelve: A Record of What Fades
The smaller the disappearance, the larger the shadow it leaves behind. – Paul Auster
Entry Eleven: The Frame That Breathes
The image doesn’t vanish in a flash. It drifts away, almost politely, until you question your own memory.
Entry Ten: The Silent Page
“I do not literally paint that table, but the emotion it produces upon me” – Henri Matisse
Entry Nine: Echoes of Philosophy
When I think about Philosophy, I imagine standing before a glacier, its face fractured, its center unknowable, and realizing that knowledge and mystery are the same thing viewed from different distances.
Entry Eight: The Quiet Edge
“I found I could say things with color and shapes that I couldn’t say any other way — things I had no words for.” - Georgia O'Keeffe
Entry Seven: The Vanished Sea
The story feels almost mythic, a painting about chaos, stolen in chaos, swallowed by the world it once tried to depict.
Entry Five: The Art of Vanishing – Of What’s to Come
“Chance is the twin of uncertainty” - Paul Auster
Entry Four: The Experiment at Sea
Artists give form to what science measures; scientists give truth to what artists feel. Together they can push memory, image, policy, maybe even hope, forward.