Tuesday 21 May 2013

Dormant



dormant





stills from moving image


løssuppenhet



All over Svalbard are abandoned man-made structures - remnants from mining, whaling and trapping. Yet these structures are in a sense still alive, mothballed by the Arctic environment ready to be resurrected at a moments notice. There's a patience and optimism about them, an equal sense of past and present, dead and alive sitting side by side.






 coal dust, graphite on paper




coal dust on photocopy