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.

Richard Koscher 10/17/25 Richard Koscher 10/17/25

Entry Six: Heat and Disappearance

“Color fades, but feeling remains.” — Henri Matisse

Richard Koscher 10/10/25 Richard Koscher 10/10/25

Entry Five: The Art of Vanishing – Of What’s to Come

“Chance is the twin of uncertainty” - Paul Auster

Richard Koscher 10/4/25 Richard Koscher 10/4/25

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.

Richard Koscher 9/29/25 Richard Koscher 9/29/25

Entry Three: Svalbard

The land is so harsh and the winters so long, that only the hardiest of souls dare venture out. Yet this same land, if you let it, will shape you, will change you.

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