{"id":3979,"date":"2015-06-22T19:06:50","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T04:06:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=3979"},"modified":"2015-07-08T09:30:45","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T18:30:45","slug":"impermanence","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/?p=3979","title":{"rendered":"Impermanence"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Scan000120\"<\/a>Glaciers are slow. In idiomatic English, to move at a “glacial pace” is to move so slowly that a casual observer will not notice the movement at all. Yet over the years I’ve been making images featuring glacial ice, the rate of observable change is phenomenally fast. Even as I compose and capture an image, the ice is melting and the image is disappearing. The majestic, glowing cavern of today is the rotted, open-top canyon of the next week. It is dry open rock the week after that.<\/p>\n

The folks at Extreme Ice Survey<\/a> make time-lapse images of melting ice around the world. Two of their cameras are trained on “my” glacier, the Mendenhall, and their one-minute video<\/a> covers seven years of activity. Time-lapse video is an excellent medium to convey the enormous change which takes place at a “glacial pace”. I don’t have an MF3D time-lapse video. I create still images. I offer you only a single still, and ask, “How do we identify the ghosts?”<\/p>\n

Today, fourteen months after that image was made, those ghostly people still walk the planet. The blue palace at which they marveled melted off into the ocean long ago.<\/p>\n

[Edited July 8, 2015 to add]<\/p>\n

I visited the ice this week and am saddened by what I found. Because of the continued ice-recession, the walk is much longer and harder than it was a few years ago, and the destination is a pathetic shadow of its former self.\u00a0 This may be the final image of my ice series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Glaciers are slow. In idiomatic English, to move at a “glacial pace” is to move so slowly that a casual observer will not notice the movement at all. Yet over the years I’ve been making images featuring glacial ice, the rate of observable change is phenomenally fast. Even as I compose and capture an image, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[485,77],"tags":[506,127,8,125,336,507,124],"class_list":["post-3979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-b28","category-foliob","tag-extreme-ice-survey","tag-ice","tag-john-thurston","tag-juneau","tag-mendenhall","tag-time-lapse","tag-tl120-1"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3979"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4015,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3979\/revisions\/4015"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/folio.solidsight.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}