21/08/2022
Every time I set out to attempt a new piece I can never anticipate what I will find or experience. This specific piece was very special as I had been attempting to create a piece on the ice float you can see just adjacent to the location I ended up choosing and due to the warm weather on that day, the float was melting at a rate that there was no way the charcoal and earth I use as pigment would stay visible. I pondered packing my materials to try another attempt the following day, however I realised the spot I had been standing on had huge potential, even though it technically wasn’t an ice float... the location was attached to an islet that was linked to a larger ice mass that had frozen just the right amount in order to access the spot. With literally only 4 hours left until sunset I began this piece anticipating it would be a failure. I knew access to the islet as well as the current ice formation could be gone within a day so I set out to attempt the piece within this very short window. The beauty of the location was in the many broken fragments separating from the larger mass of ice as if they had just ruptured and broken off from a chaotic event. The somber male portrait ended up fitting absolutely perfectly as the cheek bone matched the curved contour of the ice on the right side. After entering into a deep flow state and not flying my drone at all to see if what I was doing was even successful, I went absolutely nuts when I flew my drone with minutes to spare before sunset, finding the portrait working beautifully in context to the environment and overall composition. As mentioned in my previous post, I had not fully tied this series to the current events in Ukraine, however after returning home and showing my wife the footage she pointed out that the ice formation around the portrait had an oddly familiar silhouette to that of the shape of Ukraine. Although not a perfect match by any means, these kind of unplanned occurrences are certainly bizarre and as an artist it beckons me to consider what wants to be spoken through the art, rather than orchestrating my own plans and intentions. 🎥
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