a white (vanishing) world

mixed media on grey (heavy) cardboard / 20x10 cm

the polar bear & the arctic tern

from my working table, the work in progress...

polar bear

"Partway across a refrozen lead the bear pauses motionless,

one paw off the ground. Her head tilts and the small ears

pivot independently. She puts the paw down. She sniffs the air

at several levels, then the head is still, the attention fixed."

(Barry Lopez)

pisugtooq

"Nothing - no laboratory result or field-camp speculation -
can replace the rich, complex texture, the credibility, of something
that takes place 'out there'. And scientists working in the field know
that what they see in the field always has the potential to contradict
what they have read or been told.

[...] No matter how long you watch, you will not see all it(he) can do."

(Barry Lopez, Arctic Dreams)

* the Eskimos of northwest Greenland call the 
polar bear 'pisugtooq', the great wanderer