Iridescent Landscapes
The series of large format digital prints, “Iridescent Landscapes”, deals with the transforming topography of the glacier using a different medium.
Topography is conventionally represented through level curves. Those ideal horizontal sections of the topography represent the stability of the slowly evolving topography. But how do we represent a rapidly melting and changing topography?
Those iridescent prints explore alternative topographical representations following the slope lines on the topography, the same lines that melting ice and running water will follow. The colors draw inspiration from the algal bloom that takes place in the melting snow. Carotenoid-rich, pink algae proliferate on melting glaciers, imparting a vivid watermelon-like hue to the ice and snow. This otherworldly absorbs more sunlight and further accelerates the melting process. In our series 'Blooming snow' the snow is still there and the melting process begins - water draws new lines. 'Iridescent Landscapes' are showing the topographies without snow.
