Fragment of a Melting World
2019
Cast glass
33 x 15 x 6 cm
This work is a glass cast inspired by a research trip to Iceland, which was made possible through being awarded a travel grant from Villiers David. It is based on the Diamond Beach in the south of Iceland which is an incredibly beautiful but sad place as the ice melts from the glacier, breaks away into a lagoon, where it sits majestically. It continues to fragment, floats down to the sea and is then washed up onto the black volcanic shoreline. There it sits, glistening in the sun that is to be its own demise, never to be reformed again. This sculpture used CAD software to simulate ice which was then CNC milled and the cast was made from the milled form. The hope is that this work highlights the fragmenting and shifting ice and gives a sense of the magnitude of this climatic problem.