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Luftwerk: White Wanderer NRDC X EXPO

Developed from relationships with the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) and a glaciologist at the University of Chicago, this project launched in October 2017 with two iterations: Two North Riverside Plaza and at Art EXPO Chicago. The immersive installation at Two North Riverside Plaza was comprised of a visual representation at 1:5000 scale of the 120-mile long crack on the side of the building paired with a custom sound recording of the iceberg. Sound recordings of Larsen-C covered the plaza with a prominent frequency; at times the city and iceberg sounds correlate to one another and at other times they are in conflict. The haunting, eerie iceberg sound is animalistic with a depth that connects on a visceral level, stirring curiosity to create awareness and action. The White Wanderer exhibition at EXPO Chicago presented artistic interpretations of the Larsen-C ice shelf, including: a light sculpture mimicking ice flow, prints tracing satellite images of Arctic ice flows, and interpretations of radar readings from ice distress.