© Simon Harsent
Edmund Pearce Gallery Level 2, Nicholas Building 37 Swanston Street (corner Flinders Lane) 3000 Melbourne Victoria Australie
Melt begins with images of the massive icebergs as they enter Greenland’s Disco Bay from the Ilulissat Icefjord; it ends with the icebergs off the East Coast of Newfoundland, by which time they have traveled hundreds of miles, and have been so battered and broken down that they are little more than ghosts of what they once were. Seeing them first overpowering in grandeur and then, later, about to be absorbed back into the flux from which they came, is both beautiful and humbling: a metamorphosis that endows them with a life-span, each with it’s own personality, each with it’s own story.
This project had its origin in a wholly personal moment; a personal journey. It is impossible, however, to look at these images and not think of the environmental issues we face right now. Just as the personal choices I made in my childhood in some ways defined me as a man, so the choices we are making as a species will define who we become, and what becomes of the planet on which we live.
Melt #009 - 2008 Archival Pigment Print 58.5 x 86 cm / edition of 25 110 x 160 cm / edition of 10 © Simon Harsent
Melt #029 - 2008 Archival Pigment Print 58.5 x 86 cm / edition of 25 110 x 160 cm / edition of 10 © Simon Harsent
