Ice cubes and Olafur Eliasson

I came across the artist Olarfur Eliasson in my research of conceptual artists. He concentrates on environmental art and I really liked the Glacier piece he did where he extracted pieces of a Glacier and placed them both in a Gallery which was refrigerated and then outside where they slowly melted away. He extracted these chunks of ice from shrinking and breaking Artic sheets. A piece of ice which could be up to 1,000,000 years old. 

The act of watching the ice melt over 10 days reminds people that climate change isn't just about increase of temperature, This is the real risk. It was placed outside the Tate during the Climate Change summit in December 2018. 

I decided to try my own Ice melt and I took two ice cubes and did a series of timelapses using my iPhone and joined them together. My phone kept cutting out after a while so I had to join them together in stumbled stages of melting process. But I kind of like it. I'm not a video making wiz so to edit it quickly I uploaded them to my Instagram stories and then saved them as a video so that they were saved as one whole video.

I will try using Adobe Premier to make a more sophisticated video but watch this space because I have never use it before. For my first attempt I kind of like this. 

Whilst looking at Eliasson's work I came across another glacier related project. He took aerial images of icebergs in Iceland and then he went back 50 years later to see the difference. 

When I was out taking photos at an old Mill I visited last year I noticed something had changed about the place. And It compelled me to record it. The plaque on the front of the door had faded and pretty much left no trace of original owners. The history was fading away.

2018

2019

I haven't been inside but regulars of the area go in quite often to record the decay of the old features and I find it really interesting. It breaks my heart that this building hasn't been saved. Literally watching local history disappear.