ENTRY DESCRIPTION
This body of work captures glacial retreat in Iceland's southern glaciers. Growing smaller, beautiful patterns emerge, caves form, a new landscape is revealed. This spring a study showed that Iceland has lost 8% of its' ice. Climate change is altering this place, renowned for its incredible contrasts of greens and whites. A funeral was held for the first glacier to lose the status of glacier in 2019. Okjokull is now a small field of ice, heralding this new era of change. Twelve glaciers have disappeared now. In the two decades I have been visiting Iceland, this southern landscape has shifted from far-reaching rivers of ice to more and more water and glacial slurry. This series is a small homage to the ice that remains.

AUTHOR
I have been working as an artist and photographer for more than 30 years. Always I have found the natural world, particularly where the human footprint is lightest, to be the most compelling subject. For the last few years, I have been photographing the evidence of climate change in the Arctic as a collaborator with The Arctic Arts Project. Seeing the changes in this fragile landscape has made me more committed to producing work that is meaningful and enlightening to people who may not have the opportunity to see these places for themselves. Working in the Arctic has also led me to pursue a project titled Into the Delta, a Study of the Colorado River Basin. Changes in climate create changes in water and in the United States, the Colorado River and its tributaries are extremely vulnerable to climate change and the drought that persists as the Western US warms. My goal in all of this work is to create imagery that reveals not only the beauty of the these incredible places, but also the fragility and vulnerability inherent in them.

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