Metaphorically, the tapestry of new energy overlying and working with older ones is fairly straightforward, especially applicable in such turbulent times in human affairs. Others in this grouping are more overtly scientific in reference. In these the composition carries through, but the material changes from stone to metal or from one metal to another. The implication is that a subject is viewed through different filters or lenses, such as visible v. infrared, or any other such observational duality. The derivative thought is that viewing or thinking about anything from different perspectives will add to comprehension.

Still others are considered to be focused in “samples” of the larger whole, with the implication that extensive observation is hugely important, but so is close-in intensive analysis as well. The metal frames are intended to hint at this limitation. All of these pieces and directions represent an effort to triangulate to as significant an understanding as possible of the meaning of the Ice Cap, in all its visual and metaphorical potentialities. Of course it is calving at its margins at a distressingly increasing rate, but for the foreseeable future the fastnesses of the huge interior ice mass will remain, to be examined and pondered over by as many receptive minds as are sufficiently fortunate to bear witness.

“Bathygelidi” is a created word from classics, as with most of my titles. It is a combination of “bathus”, a Greek word signifying high or deep, and “gelidus”, a Latin word for icy, cold. It is intended that the combination of two languages would lead to thoughts of search for understanding and meaning, with as broad a net as can be cast