The Stillness Of Motion : Changing Polar Landscapes

At the same time, this series is a visual contemplation of the spatial-temporal concepts of motion and change as they act upon our polar spaces. The frequent use of motion blur evokes a sense of movement and impermanence that calls attention to the fragile and fleeting nature of these frozen lands, as well as to the motion that exists within all space, from atoms and celestial spheres to glaciers and tectonic plates.

Although the photograph has long symbolized our ability to capture space and freeze time – both literally and figuratively facilitating the colonial ambitions of control – the camera is merely an instrument of space and time, a tool of our subjective imagination. A photograph is not an objective truth; invested with intention, it exposes the mind, and in so doing reveals that mind and space are one. In imaged space, movement can manifest in abstraction, impermanence in impression, time in blur. A long exposure can emulate the action of eternity upon the earth, for inevitably, time denies space its form.