Historicity of Ice — artist’s note

The sea has never stopped changing. Ice holds still. Inside a glacier, air from tens of thousands of years ago is kept like a sample.

While working on this series, I saw a carbon distribution chart — time, proved in numbers. What is proved becomes history; what is not, disappears. Repeated long enough, classification stops being a tool and becomes the goal. Then it becomes an object of reverence: a crystal model on a white plinth, lit like a relic. Then it is simply how the world is.

“Even what exists can disappear if it cannot be proved.”

There are people making history on this continent. I lift them from the background but keep them at the height of the ice and the machines. Here, a person is one more layer.

After Antarctica, I went north, to ice that does not stay. That record became .