Like Herstory: Autobiography, my research journey can simply be told. Easier said than done. Writing Herstory, I stepped back from my own life journey and told how it was so far. Through simple words and pictures, it shows just a slice from many layers of meaning I could have read into it. Although it took a while for it to find its present shape, I know this shape is arbitrary.
I can step back now, and and tell how this journey has gone so far (with always more to do) – this research journey to animate Antarctica. But this journey is very different. It is not about me, but about everyone, and everywhere. Perhaps I can show one layer of meaning.
Antarctic Animation is shaping up quite differently from Herstory, showing more perspectives than my own.
There is so much more to do. It doesn’t hang together as a story yet. It is all in pieces, reflecting the often chance encounters I have had with expeditioners, scientists, and other artists.
Changes in Antarctic landscape, and within those who have worked there, are too complex for one person to fully know. We are told about evidence of change within the landscape, and within those who have worked there to understand it. We can only draw from what we know, or believe we understand about these changes. We can draw to make sense of our own experiences, and of how we respond to what we hear and are shown about the changes.