Closing In By Marsel Van Oosten

Hi, I’m new here. Here’s a little ship with some tall icebergs.

“Stream in a Winter” (1909)

Jakub Glasner (Polish;1879-1942)

oil on canvas, private collection

Desa Unicum

Endurance

The Unkown Ships- in honour of the Arctic Expeditions, by Capt. Chamier and J. P. Knight 1845

deep in the arctic circle

Frank Hurley :: Sclater penguin, from [Exhibition of pictures taken during the Australasian Antarctic Expedition and other photographic studies], 1911-1914 / src: State Library of New South Wales 

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The final 20 miles of the Dalton driven in the fog, North Slope, Alaska

Taken August 2020

hey babe you okay? you haven’t talked about those men dying in the arctic for three and a half minutes

one tab open on the terror (2018), the other tab open on “schools with polar studies degree”

arctic gothic

• There are strange lights in the sky. It is not the Aurora Borealis. You pretend it is the Aurora Borealis.

• Something is eating the polar bears.

• The ice fields seem to go on forever. Perhaps they do.

• You wake up in darkness. You go to sleep in darkness. You exist in darkness.

• Watch out for falling icicles- they’re waiting for you to come within spearing distance.

• Yes, the wolf is howling your name. Do not go outside.

• Every radio station is static. Sometimes whale song plays from a channel with no name.

• A crack in the ice opened up last week. It creaks and groans intermittently. There is no bottom in sight.

• A pale figure stands atop the northernmost snowdrift at 00:59am each night. At 1am it is gone. We are unsure of his motives.