Arctic

Creative Rationale

Over the Greenland Sea in the high Arctic, where frigid waters meet the polar ice edge, a powerful storm system churns with near-hurricane force winds and dense atmospheric moisture. The extreme cold anomaly of 1.3°C against a zonal mean 16 degrees warmer creates a stark, crystalline palette of silver-white marks against deep blue-black grounds, while the high wind speed of 21.7 m/s generates densely swarming processions of calligraphic gestures flowing from the northeast. The low pressure system and 97% humidity veil the composition in misty, layered atmospheric fields that soften the agitated mark-making into Lewis's characteristic jazz-inflected rhythms of light against darkness.