As it turns out, the beauty of the ice can be transported. Zaria Forman has figured out how. Here,Sven Lindblad- who has been championing my work for the past three years – relaxes with his very own original pastel drawing by Zaria Forman. The ice made me feel right at home in the middle of…
This is like the heart. It has many ways of showing itself. This wall has been through a lot. We know that from its cracks, which we might call texture, but we know are also the signatures of experience. The windows, we might say, are broken. But breaking has opened them. Love is what you see…
Super treat to travel with Jasper Doest who took this photo of me in Antarctica just a few weeks ago. His work makes connections between image and emotion … and sheds new light on our place in the natural world. I recommend a follow!
We’ve only been in town an hour when someone knocks on the door. It’s the local English teacher, who is the last messenger in a long line of connections that began back in Canada. “The dancing will begin in an hour,” she says. When we arrive, women and girls are pulling on their tunics while…
Modern tupilaks bear little resemblance to the originals; in fact, none of the originals exist anymore. Pre-contact, tupilaks were fashioned from perishable materials and released to seek and destroy an enemy. If the enemy had greater power, the plan could backfire, killing the original maker. At that time, tupilaks were powerful, secret objects, never intended…
Post 2 of 2. “This one is by a Danish guy . . . He made the forest, and then one day his Greenlandic wife phoned him and said, ‘Is it okay that I have been making some icebergs on your forest?’ And he said, ‘Well, yes’, and so it was. They are living in…
Nuka K. Godtfredsen is the creator of four graphic novels about Greenland’s history from the early Inuit migrations to contact with the Norse. He begins with a manuscript, then a storyboard, then the drawings. Each two-page spread takes a month to complete. Nuka researches every detail from fashion to ship’s rigging, hunting equipment, and castle…
Check out our most recent story on Arctic Deeply. As luck would have it, Meet the North bumped into local artist Mathew Nuqingaq during a short stop in Iqaluit. Take a tour of his workshop as he explains his passion for creating jewelry and all things metal. In the shop, I noticed a man with a kind face and…
Inspiration lives here. A fabulous visit with artist Zaria Forman left me uplifted and even more in love with ice. It was so special to see this pastel iceberg come to life on a wall in New York City but even more special to learn from the talent, focus, commitment and vision of the artist herself….
(Post 1 of 3) The Arts & Crafts Workshop sits down by the harbour in Sisimiut. The dust from carved antler and bone reaches your nose as you climb the stairs. It’s pretty quiet inside; but it’s full of stories. Tuku’s parents, Axel Lund Olsen and Makka Nykjær recommended that I come here to meet…