This series is about the Arctic during the “great melting,” a term used to describe the rapid melting of glaciers and ice sheets due to climate change caused by human activities.
The smell of ice
Carries me home
Beyond now
Into a distant horizon
I wonder
I wander
Hope as fuel
Dreams my shepherd
STILL ME!
inside
Still me inside…
The smell of snow
The smell of ice
Rivers and Mountains During the Great Melting
Painted with Mayan Indigo and wildfire ash from Umbria, Italy, this piece draws from Taoist landscapes and mystical cosmology. In this time of melting glaciers and vanishing rivers, the work envisions survival through transformation—forms held delicately between dissolution and endurance. Pigments gathered from fire and earth ground the image in both ancestral memory and ecological urgency.
oil on canvas, 48×36″, 2024
Blue Ice
This piece reflects on a stunning, endangered phenomenon—dense, transparent glacier ice that glows with a surreal inner light. For this painting, I used acrylic: a petroleum-based plastic pigment already on my shelf. I usually paint with oils, but here, material irony became the message. Acrylic—like the microplastics now infiltrating the Arctic—is embedded in our environments. This work is a meditation on color, climate collapse, and the shifting perception of beauty in a world saturated by plastic.
acrylic on canvas, 12×12″, 2025
Charred Ice
Created with wildfire ash and cobalt blue pigment, Charred Ice is an emotional landscape of loss—mourning the disappearance of Arctic ice and permafrost. It is both a record and a residue: fire and melt, memory and disappearance. This work holds the tension between devastation and remembrance, offering a quiet elegy for a world transforming beyond recognition.
oil on canvas, 12 x 12 in., 2025
Colonized Blue
A color once symbolic of vast, untouched waters and open skies is now marked, gridded, and enclosed. Colonized Blue reflects how human intervention fractures ecosystems—imposing boundaries on what once flowed freely. This piece speaks to rising seas, melting ice, and the commodification of nature. What happens when the climate is shaped not by seasons, but by industry?
oil on canvas, 12 x 12 in., 2025
For the Narwhal
A prayer for the unicorn of the sea—this painting is a mourning song for the narwhal, whose migration routes are disrupted by melting ice and militarized noise. Created with pigments attuned to oceanic depths and glacial quiet, For the Narwhal honors a creature that listens with its entire body, navigating sonar-rich waters now distorted by human interference. The swirling forms suggest both current and spirit, echoing the narwhal’s long, spiraled tusk—an organ of perception, myth, and mystery.
Part of Earth Remains, this work reflects on vanishing ecologies and the spectral presences that linger where species are threatened. It holds space for grief, reverence, and the urgent call to listen differently—to become attuned to the more-than-human voices that still speak through water and time.
Oil on canvas, 40x60cm., 2023