Alberto Morales explains the “visual silence”
of his drawings.
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My objects face Lorraine Beaulieu’s maps
Pamen Pereira looks at 42 days.
Tomorrow I speak in Buenos Aires, about animating Antarctic landscape.
I am proposing that Antarctica can change the nature of a person, and that animation can be used to explore the transformations happen in the internal and external landscapes people find there.
Extraordinarily, this morning, I reveive an Email from an animator aiming to “explore the emotional effects of Antarctica on the mind and spirit” of her father’s Antarctic journey.
We must meet!
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More reports from Bill Burch arrive, this time from Mawson. He has traveled through the mountains that Jack Ward and Fred Elliott explored in 1955. He writes of the nunataks as dark “fangs” cutting through ice:
What a sight those dessicated rock pinnacles are, piercing the plateau’s ice fields like jagged offset serrated teeth in a giant shark’s mouth!
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All two levels of the gallery filled with people, and Sur Polar was opened.