Antarctica is mapped in different ways, revealing the different perspectives of people who have been there, or observed it from a distance.
Pamen Pereira has mapped Antarctica according her experience there, of internal and external landscapes being one. Her map may resonate with others who have been there, and experienced similar thoughts and feelings.
Antarctica, she says, lends itself to us knowing…
… (its) relationship with the mysterious forces of Nature and the subtle energies connected with consciousness…
In relation to the Antarctic Continent the objective was to interpret the interior shape of a landscape that shows opposites simultaneously – void and plenitude, finite and infinite, freezing and boiling, visible and invisible, light and darkness. To reach its internal structure and to understand the relationship between the immanence and transcendence of the consciousness through matter and its divine resonance.
I have now verified that the core of the Earth beats loudly under the overwhelming white coat, that the frozen mountains and the ice floes of my sculptures and pictures exist, that the Moon also travels over those seas and that the glaciers are poets of light and air. Poetry in its essence. It’s an ideal place that accompanies the ice burning in our inside, which some times purifies us and some times consumes us.
Sur Polar presentation, Buenos Aires, March 2008