Untitled (Antarctica) 2010
tea, graphite, gouache on paper
tea, graphite, gouache on paper
4 1/2" x 6"
Small coastline landscape from a series in progress.
Continental margins mesmerize me: undersea rivers, alluvial fans, submarine canyons and avalanches. They can be narrow and plunge to incredible depths or wide, shallow, and quiet. Economically important and ecologically fragile, the majority of our direct experience of the ocean takes place on tiny continental shelves.
Polar coastlines particularly tantalize. Entire habitats of ice, supporting researchers seasonally, disappear annually. The painfully slow dance of calving icebergs miniaturize our human pulses and rhythms.
Continental margins mesmerize me: undersea rivers, alluvial fans, submarine canyons and avalanches. They can be narrow and plunge to incredible depths or wide, shallow, and quiet. Economically important and ecologically fragile, the majority of our direct experience of the ocean takes place on tiny continental shelves.
Polar coastlines particularly tantalize. Entire habitats of ice, supporting researchers seasonally, disappear annually. The painfully slow dance of calving icebergs miniaturize our human pulses and rhythms.
Poetry! This one may be my new favorite. When I look at this and think of calving icebergs it seems to take on a ghost-like quality. Really beautiful Melissa.
ReplyDeleteMelissa, these are magical. You really captured the fragile aspects of this ever changing landscape. "Submarine canyons" sounds so beautiful.
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