Blue Glacial Ice: The End of Reference

A continuous-shot video panorama of a 360-degree glide towards and across the receding fifteen-kilometre wide and ninety-eight metres high Dahlbreen glacier in Oscar II Land, Spitsbergen, Svalbard.

Visually and physically blue glacial ice is a repository of the past. The air bubbles formed in the ice during the recrystallisation of fallen snow over hundreds and thousands of years contain ancient knowledge inside of them. As glaciers calve and ice melts, so the ancient air trapped in these bubbles is released; past and present atmospheres coalesce. Blue glacial ice contains a past that no longer is, frozen in its core. To see the death of glacial ice is the end of reference; an indicator of climate change; the death of our planet and all of us in it.

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