W. Benjamin Bray

Arctic Sea Ice in Glass

cast glass
2012

In 2011, I was invited to participate in the Arctic Circle Residency - a chance to continue a polar trajectory to the boundary between tropical culture and what Melville referred to as the "Polar Eternities". This was at time when I had acknowledged an affinity for being at boundaries that may be considered primordial, null, or serving spaces so vast and different that we're overwhelmed by the sense of being there, where winds blow across a nearly discontinuous gradient.

Arctic Sea Ice in Glass (detail)

Arctic Sea Ice in Glass (detail)