Melting Icescapes

This is an installation of layered photographic prints on glass focusing on the rapid glacial melt in the Himalayas. Each layer represents the cumulative impact of humans on the glaciers.

Unknown to most, glaciers are the largest reservoir of the world's fresh water and are a keystone to life on Earth. Since the 1900s, glaciers have lost a significant portion of their mass, and some have disappeared entirely.

The work uses digital elevation model data, 3D printing, digital imaging technology, carbon transfer printing, and the affective and material qualities of light and glass to visualise the ecological breakdown of human's impact on nature. It highlights the intertwined relationship between human advances in technology and the cumulative ecological breakdown and impacts.