Our comforting sense of the permanence of our natural world, our confidence that it will change gradually and imperceptibly if at all, is the result of a subtly warped perspective... I believe that without recognizing it we have already stepped over the threshold of such a change; that we are at the end of nature.
-McKibben
An app to observe time and change in an Arctic landscape. I am struck how often I read the word desolate used to describe the landscape of the Arctic regions. It is my belief that we need to view the landscape from a non-human perspective, discarding our perception of time to invoke empathy for the natural environment.
Tolerate a loss of self and a loss of rationality by trusting in the capacity to recreate oneself in another character, another environment.
-Keats
This app is a reminder of the small moments and movements, the flourish of life that exists in these regions. The imperceptible changes that the human eye fails to perceive. The app also invites the user to consider our interaction with this landscape and how our smallest action can leave a trace.
Small increments of time are presented in the stones. The hour hand is made of larger landscape features and the background slowly shifts over twenty-four hours. The app progresses to reflect how I imagine rocks, snow, ice, lichen and arctic moss view their world and experience human interaction.
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