ghost breath
Installation mock up of a photographic series inspired by Anna Kavan's novel, Ice. The piece consists of 10 cyanotypes of Lake Hebron in Monson, ME during the spring thaw. Here they are presented in reverse order. The prints have been bleached nearly to the point of invisibility, creating ghostly, abstracted landscapes. The title, "ghost breath," refers to a low lying dense fog that can occur when lake ice essentially sublimates due to a sudden rise in temperature.
The text panel is a quote from Kavan's novel:
Day by day the ice was creeping over the curve of the earth, unimpeded by seas or mountains. Without haste or pause, it was steadily moving nearer, entering and flattening cities, filling craters from which boiling lava had poured. There was no way of stopping the icy giant battalions, marching in relentless order across the world, crushing, obliterating, destroying everything in their path.
— Anna Kavan
