I ponder on what a painting of environmental change of the arctic looks like? The Arctic is warming three times as fast and the global average. The melting of snow and ice exposes a darker surface and increases the amount of solar energy absorbed. This significant regional warming leads to continued loss of sea ice, melting of glaciers and ice caps. Polar bears rely heavily on sea ice for traveling, hunting, resting and mating. I wanted to create a moving representation of the warming of the permafrost, decrease in snow cover, shrinking of glaciers, and disappearing of sea ice. I wanted the movement in the piece to represent this continuous change, a battle of cool and warm and the chaos of complex changes.
