BREAKING OF ICE 2020

The interplay between ice and light features in this series of works. Light travels through blocks of ice, large and small, industrial and domestic. As it slowly melts, its shape and form is changed, making parallels with the effects of climate change.

This series of images documents the transformation of a large 200 kg block of ice, with light piercing through it, chipped away and slowly melting. Presented in light boxes, they explore melting ice from the perspective of a camera’s close-up lens. The resulting images are like glacier landscapes looking down from above, the blue water flowing out from the (white) ice. Uncertainty and flux.

Cresciani’s images .. visually evoke the process of ice melting in new ways: as wafer thin moments in time; in extreme close up; as areas of diffused and refracted light. Abstractly beautiful .. the invitation to reflect is there – proffered not through spectacle, but by way of attachment to the mysterious, irreplaceable world they spring from. Anne Ferran

The works were made during my 2020 Dark Matter Residency at PhotoAccess.

Breaking of Ice, 2020, duratrans, 42 x 30cm, Edition of 3 + AP