The Arctic universe, our former virgin land both inhospitable and wild, has turned into the Eldorado of the future. This work traces a region to its downfall, attempting to draw us closer to the essence of image capture, memorialisation, and our nostalgic yearning for the immediate past. Here is a landscape so grandiose that attempting to frame it into a single image seems perpetually inadequate. These hyper-real photographs almost defy reality, alluding to our sense of the real and virtual, and our obsession with looking to other planets — while neglecting what we have here on earth. Our idyllic vision of the far North will soon be gone, as changes to our environment bring both opportunity, and equally, the opposing value of loss. Photography, despite having a fraught relationship with truth from its inception, still possesses a certain ability to command visibility amongst even the ignorant, especially in processing and comprehending loss - as is arguably its essence. Transformation and loss are the basis of this work, built on the multitude of layers accumulated over centuries and millennia, as little by little they are reduced to nothing. In this series, past and future are conflated in the same image — the absence of ice, as much as the presence of thick glacial layers stubbornly resisting death. Photographic negatives are over and under exposed in a mimetic gesture of natural forces transforming the Arctic, as rain replaces snow, and the material becomes immaterial. D.A. Kerr