Arctic Crisis Photomontage Series

Arctic Crisis Part 1 and Ecology of Narrative Spaces Part 2 are a two-part series of digital photomontage prints using archival inks on fine art paper. In my view the flexibility of digital photomontage technique suited my aesthetic concerns relating to fluidity of identity, memory, loss and fragility.

The Arctic Crisis Part 1 series (15) has a base-photograph of an arctic community taken during winter 1981, which is digitally layered with a transparent image of a New York City. These contrasting geopolitical locations are interconnected by climate warming impacts across cultures, distance and time. New York City, despite it being a global economic power is vulnerable to flooding by its sea-level elevation.

There is historical and contemporary significance within this body of work. I am able to reinvent memories from my travel-photographs found in the family photo album nearly three-decades later. I retain the rounded corners of the original arctic photograph print format, which I had scanned and edited to improve clarity.

Contemporary public policies recognize the global warming intersecting impacts to arctic communities and major ocean coastal economic centers such as New York City. By now, socio-political actions focus on adaptation needed by the Nunavut and Canadian governments.

This body of work has received international critical acclaim with many public exhibitions, publications, and is in corporate and private collections.