A testament to impermanence, an ephemeral landscape in constant flux, and the act of memorialising its image for generations to come, through the medium of photography. While my practice as a whole aims to reveal hidden meanings on a geologic time scale, this artwork shows a snapshot of a kinetic landscape which no longer exists in this form. On a long and arduous journey at 16,000ft in the Cordillera Blanca in Peru, I used my camera to photograph a glacier illuminated by my light-carrying drone. This allowed me to reveal details and textures never witnessed before, in a way which can be described as 'terrestrial chiaroscuro'. The still image version of this piece was published in National Geographic Magazine, Sept 2020.
2880 x 2160 - Sound and visuals by the artist.