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 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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Entry Two: The Ship

He had learned the trick of silence, to let the great world speak while he listened.

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Entry One: Toward the Ice

“The world is as full of brutality as the sea is full of motion. And some men are made sick by the one, and some by the other.” – Jack London

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