Antarctic Sea Ice Series

Xavier Cortada, recipient of a 2006-2007 National Science Foundation Antarctic Artists and Writers fellowship, traveled to Antarctica to implement a series of projects and installations. While there, the Miami artist created “ice paintings” using sea ice, glacier and sediment samples provided to him by scientists working in Antarctica. The artist titled the works on paper by randomly selecting the names of geographic features from a map of the continent that inspired their creation.

norvegia
weddell
wilkins
bellingshausen
wrigley
ross
balleny
porpoise
vincennes
prydz
amundsen
astrid
lauritzen
dakshin-gangotri
molodežnaja
drygalski
bickerton
cook
mcmurdo
getz
fletcher
deception
wohlthat
syowa
darnley
denman
banzare
amery
fridtjof nansen
balchen
thwaites
bryan
berkner

Xavier Cortada
Ice Paintings: Antarctic Sea Ice series
Medium: Sea ice from Antarctica’s Ross Sea, sediment from Antarctica’s Dry Valleys, and mixed media on paper
Size: 12 inches x 9 inches
Year: 2007
Created onsite at McMurdo Station, Ross Island, Antarctica