Photographs of ocean landscapes alternate with mountain glaciers in a video loop that meditates on the transformation and redistribution of water – an issue at the core of climate change. The video is paired with a staged melting event in which 300-pound blocks of ice slowly turn to water.
Sublimation of Ice
Full Title:
Sublimation of Ice
Sublimation of Ice
Date:
2006
Artists:
Jon Santos
photography by Susannah Sayler
Exhibition History:
SOFA GALLERY, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, Canary Project Works on Climate Change 2006-2009, 2009
CLIFFORD GALLERY, Colgate University, Hamilton, NY, Nature Version 2.0: Ecological Modernities and Digital Environmentalism, 2008
SHEEHAN GALLERY, Whitman College, Walla Walla, WA, The Canary Project, 2007
CRANE ARTS BUILDING, Philadelphia, PA, Dimensions of Change, 2006