Dutch photo artist Scarlett Hooft Graafland spent four months in the Canadian arctic to produce her Igloolik series, including Lemonade Igloo (above), which really is made from blocks of frozen orange lemonade.
–Polar Bear
The images eloquently convey the frigid, barren nature of Canada’s far North, in a series that Graafland created to underscore the additional environmental threat the region faces.
She singles out one image, of herself perched on a stepladder in the tundra, swathed in a polar bear rug near a distressingly open sea. Against a blackening sky, her bare foot pokes out from the yellowed fur, testing the waters, maybe, that need to be frozen solid to ensure the bears’ survival. -Toronto Star
-Journey
-My White Night
-Plea
-Palm Tree (seal entrails)
Scarlett Hooft Graafland’s website, here.
For other cooling Canadian images see these Art Junkie posts:
- Arctic Wonderland, Sarah Anne Johnson
- Unbearable Frost & Thin Air, Ragnar Kjartansson
- Above the Tree Line, Arnold Zageris
- Beauty of The Commonplace, Wilf Perrault
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Seal entrails in the shape of a palm tree on ice – love the irony, if that’s the right word. I think of survival and food and dreams of a warm climate.
Exactly. She’s very sharp at making her point.
Very nice work
She’s amazing, isn’t she?
A great free canvas!
Great point. It certainly is.