“Do we ever act to save something if we experience it only through facts and figures, but lack a connection to it in our hearts?”Ice Rivers (2021)
Art and ice projects
The Sad Tale of the Dying Glacier
Through a collaboration between the Natural Environment Council in the UK and Hay Festival, I had the incredible opportunity to work with Peruvian actress and writer, Erika Stockholm, to create a play about the rapid demise of Shallap Glacier in the Cordillera Blanca of Peru, and the impacts its retreat is having on water quality in the region (image credit: Hay Festival).
Becoming the Glacier
Solving some of the worrying problems emerging from the global retreat of the Earth’s glaciers often requires working across national border, diverse disciplines, and armed with powerful new ways to communicate the stories of our research. Here is a beautiful film made by Jon Spaull (shortlisted for an AHRC research in film award) about the water quality impacts of glacier retreat in the Peruvian Andes (image credit above/below/right: J. Spaull).
