Sno-Cat straddling a crevasse during the first Trans Antarctic expedition, 1957

Acrylics on canvas, 2022

Inspired by images of the 1914-1917 Shackleton antarctic expedition as well as the 2018 series the Terror.

HMS Terror’s first besetment in pack ice, 26 August 1836, during the Captain George Back, Frozen Straight expedition, by Lieutenant Owen Stanley in: HMS Terror: The Design, Fitting and Voyages of the Polar Discovery Ship, by Matthew Betts

Frank Hurley 

Photos from The Imperial Trans-Antarctic expedition of 1914–191,considered to be the last major expedition of the Heroic Age of Antarctic Exploration. Conceived by Sir Ernest Shackleton, the expedition was an attempt to make the first land crossing of the Antarctic continent

I. “Parhelion” by Christopher Michel, Antartica, January 4, 2018​. Sunlight and ice crystals in the atmosphere refract creating a glowing halo, a lesson of physics written across the sky. Same phenomena can be seen with moonlight, known as Paraselene.

II. “The English at the North Pole” drawn by Édouard Riou and Henri de Montaut, 1866. From Jules Verne’s novel “Journeys and Adventures of Captain Hatteras”

The Bark “Morning Star” and the Brig “Alexander” cutting in, North of the Bering Strait, by John Stobart (1929-)

Цветные фотографии участников экспедиции в Антарктиду, сделанные в 1915 году

Color photographs of the participants of the expedition to Antarctica, made in 1915.