Bleeding Poles

For the project « Bleeding Poles », I drew on public domain images (CC0) and, through digital work, created vignettes that reveal the stakes of our climate. My carbon footprint is therefore almost nil.

The left-hand images are exclusively in red and blue tones (climate doppler). The natural tones of ice-floe photographs are far too gentle to convey today’s climate stakes. They appear eternal and immutable. I had to find a digital means of foregrounding the changes at work. Through saturated, seemingly unnatural colors, I give these images another resonance. I also scratched the photographic plates to signify the urgency.

The right-hand images are rendered in a highly textured black and white — from blown-out whites to deep blacks. They subtly echo the left-hand images and allow the composition to find its balance. It is through this link that the questioning arises. The echo may be a recall of texture, a detail, or even a metaphor.

The viewer is invited to create the final image by weaving the two photographs together.

This project is composed of the four series below, which follow a chronological order: Our Bleeding Poles, Our Bleeding Ice, To Find Out Our Poles, Cocktail Antipodes.