Ninety-Degree Draft
2009-2011
gouache, color pencil on paper
10 drawings each 30 x 42"
The entire journey to Antarctica--from the beginning application process to a rendering of this completed drawing at the end. Hundreds of images and text are drawn on ten painted maps of the Antarctic continent. There are portraits of those who contributed references for the National Science Foundation Antarctica Artists and Writers Program application as well as the scientists and personnel on the ice. All the art made on location- at the Lake Hoare Field Camp in the Dry Valleys,
at the penguin colonies at Cape Royds and Cape Crozier at the South Pole and and at the main U.S. research base, McMurdo Station is included as are landscapes of all of the above. Interiors of camps, helicopter views and wildlife seen are documented in this drawn timeline of the two months on "the Ice" along with the time preparing for the trip. Green arrows provide the direction for your eyes to follow.
at the penguin colonies at Cape Royds and Cape Crozier at the South Pole and and at the main U.S. research base, McMurdo Station is included as are landscapes of all of the above. Interiors of camps, helicopter views and wildlife seen are documented in this drawn timeline of the two months on "the Ice" along with the time preparing for the trip. Green arrows provide the direction for your eyes to follow.
Ninety-Degree Draft #2 (detail)
Survival school, aka "Happy Camper" Scott Base and the Berg Field Center--source of borrowed tents, sleeping bags and pee bottles, etc.
In the bottom right corner you can see people with buckets on their heads...one of the survival school activities. The text for that image reads "And of course the bucket exercise made famous by Werner Herzog film "Encounters at the End of the World." This was meant to simulate a white-out. As in the movie we failed not finding our (imaginary)lost comrade, just coiling our group into a spiral holding the rope."
In the bottom right corner you can see people with buckets on their heads...one of the survival school activities. The text for that image reads "And of course the bucket exercise made famous by Werner Herzog film "Encounters at the End of the World." This was meant to simulate a white-out. As in the movie we failed not finding our (imaginary)lost comrade, just coiling our group into a spiral holding the rope."
Ninety-Degree Draft #4 (detail)
2010
gouache and colored pencil on paper
30 x 42"
Lake surface, with geologist Devin lake walking, Luigi with Petri dishes, the labs at Lake Hoare.
Text reads, "Walking on the lake is totally uneven-sometimes one has to step up two feet as the ice changes texture and depth. You have to step carefully."
Text reads, "Walking on the lake is totally uneven-sometimes one has to step up two feet as the ice changes texture and depth. You have to step carefully."