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 032: The Beautiful Game
“The history of football is a sad voyage from beauty to duty." - Eduardo Galeano (Soccer in Sun and Shadow)
Entry 031: The Silence of the Brands
"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." — Robert Swan
Entry 030: Twenty-Three Kilograms
"The more you know, the less you need.” – Yvon Chouinard (Patagonia founder):
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)
Entry 028: Horsepower
Angst macht den Wolf größer, als er ist. (Fear makes the wolf look bigger) — German proverb
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.
Entry 026: What You Lose Along the Way
"Ghosts never frighten people who are used to them." — Paul Auster, The Locked Room
Entry 024: Eighty People in a Room
"Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day." — Albert Camus
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
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