A dark sky sits heavily over the fractured ice, seemingly undisturbed from above but cross sections of the landscape reveal branching crevices beneath the glacier.
Special collection:
glacial fractures
This collection, inspired by the structure and contrasts discovered during carving, speaks of the foreboding environmental tensions characterised by glacial fractures and the shrinking ice caps.
Much like climate science, which requires thorough study and attention to be fully comprehended, the full details of these pendants are only seen when held against the light - revealing a branching storm of intricacies running through the pieces.
Against the fracturing ice, we see what is left: the foreboding darkness, rising seas and lifeless rock.
The beauty in the contrasting colours, crystalline structures and abstract landscape forms in the stone is held in tenuous balance when viewed through this sombre lens.
The tumbling glacier descends through the black night, centuries of built up layers revealed as the ice crumbles to the sea.
Beneath the ice sheet, dark forces stir. A swell, an undercurrent observed only to those who search in the light, bides it’s time. The consequences of our choices rising to the surface.
Ten thousand years ago: the weight of kilometres of frozen snow and water sits heavily over Scotland.
Soon a thaw will create a flex in the surface which will change the landscape forever.
A chasm forms, shattering the ground in the dead of night. The ice, creaking and straining, resists the immediate surrender to the inevitable demise of the shelf.
The slow sideways flow of the glacier creates a moment of friction. Over dark seas, the ice refreezes, creating scar tissue and melt water fractures.
As meltwater pours off and through the ice sheet, the sea levels begin to rise.
Beauty on the pure white surface masks the changing oceans..
Purity - the calm before the storm. Steady and reliable, the ice sits in a proud peak.