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Caption: A one-month art residency aboard the National Geographic Explorer The Falkland Islands,
South Georgia,
and Antarctica
Caption: NYC ✈️ Buenos Aires ✈️Ushaia⛴
At the bottom tip of South America, we boarded the National Geographic Explorer on November 10th, 2015 and headed East for two days at sea to reach the Falkland Islands
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Caption: The Falkland's, known to Argentinians as Les Malvina's, were wild and desolate, windy, vast, and starkly beautiful
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Caption: After two more days at sea, we arrived at South Georgia, an island of British overseas territory, further South East in the Southern Ocean. We woke up at 2am for a sunrise landing at Gold Harbour, and were greeted by fur seals, elephant seals, and a King penguin colony of 80,000 families.
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Caption: Salisbury Plain, South Georgia
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Caption: We were told that people come on this trip for the wildlife, but they return for the ice.
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Caption: During two more days at sea, anxiously awaiting the ice, we head South to the Antarctic Peninsula. It was a bit of a rough ride, but sea-sickness meds got
us through!
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Caption: Remember when the largest iceberg ever recorded, calved off of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica in 2000? It was all over the news. This is part of it, about 100ft tall, which means about another 800-900ft descends below the water line. We sailed along it for 8 nautical miles in "Iceberg Alley", Antarctica
Caption: Elephant Island was one of our first stops in Antarctica . We witnessed a massive chunk of ice "calving" off of a glacier. I wish there were a bird in the the following photo for scale- the glacier was at least 300 ft tall.
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Caption: I was there to experience and photograph the ice. I use my memory of the journey, and the photographs to create large-scale drawings of landscapes shifting form, due to the effects of climate change
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Caption: I'm back home now and for the last eight weeks have been working on my first piece inspired by the trip. This is what it looks like now! But I digress...
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Caption: On the very last day, we took the Polar Plunge! The Southern Ocean was 28 degrees that day.
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Caption: I am still searching for words that can adequately convey the majesty and ethereal wonderment of this journey, and these landscapes. I hope this at least gives you a tiny taste!
