How can immersive field research be presented in a meaningful way?
My sketchbooks contain the truest fragments of my work—unfiltered and immediate, capturing my responses as I experienced them somewhere in the field. Yet, they’ve remained unseen. Recently, however, I’ve started engaging with them more intentionally, allowing them to guide and shape my practice in new ways.
Over four years, I painted 26 large canvases directly in the landscape. Now, displayed rolled on map stands, these works form a layered composition, telling a story of that time through their reassembled image.
A piece of glacier ice is scanned using a mobile 3D scanner and sealed in a folding canister. From this data, its shape is replicated with a 3D printer, and the ice is refrozen alongside the sealed water. As the ice melts on the prepared freezer, the water flows through a pipe into the moulded shape within the freezer, where it refreezes again. Each cycle produces less water as it evaporates, repeating itself until nothing is left. In contrast, a dehumidifier converts humidity back into water, emphasizing that we are not merely observers but active participants in the system.
The installation serves as a self-dissolving hourglass, continuously measuring time until nothing is left. It invites reflection on the human hubris and the profound paradoxes of our existence.
