Arctic 60n 130w

Creative Rationale

Over the Beaufort Sea in the Canadian Arctic, where extreme cold meets churning atmospheric pressure, this composition emerges from layers of memory and geological time. The steep pressure gradient creates dense archaeological stratification in the visual field, while the significant temperature anomaly drives chaotic marks to break violently through structured underlying layers. High humidity renders previous painting sessions translucent, creating palimpsest effects where ghost images float beneath current interventions, and light precipitation adds temporal drip marks suggesting years of reworking this same canvas.