The Quest - finding trees in Greenland
https://vimeo.com/719943328?ref=em-share I have finally sorted out this little video - got rid of the glitches and reloaded it to Vimeo,...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Jun 7
- 7 min
Looking the other way
'With towering icebergs, unspoiled tundra, and unbeatable views of the aurora borealis, Greenland has all the makings of a tourist hot...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- May 26
- 4 min
Mist descending - act 1
Friday: the children and I walk from house to house and pick up their solargraphic cameras. I then try to process them, but the school’s...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- May 17
- 5 min
To aim for the highest point is not the only way to climb a mountain
Tuesday May 17th. Bit of a gloomy start to the day here in Oqaatsut after the last few days of sun sun sun. So I’m using it to catch up...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- May 11
- 5 min
The changes they are a-coming
May 5th Sitting quietly drawing dogs in the afternoon sun there’s a sudden deep roar; the dogs and I all turn our heads and stare at the...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- May 4
- 6 min
Greenlandic urban life vs rural simplicity
Still in Ilulissat... Teaching for three of the days hasn’t left time for getting out and about, but to be honest there’s really not much...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Apr 29
- 5 min
The ever-changing ice
I haven’t posted for a while. Just found a note I’d written to myself that says ‘the weather is very erratic’. Indeed it is; I think...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Apr 22
- 5 min
To reach nowhere in particular
with wind chill factor it’s like -20C It’s a white white world out there. Have just got back into bed to write as it’s cold in my room...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Apr 20
- 3 min
More or less ice and cake eating
It’s amazing how fast the ice changes in the bay. A coating of thin ice floats on the surface, giving it a white sheen, broken lumps...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Apr 17
- 4 min
Changes in the bay
Saturday April 16th and a few days earlier Suddenly the bay is emptying of ice. A large expanse of open water now presents itself and the...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Apr 15
- 1 min
Trials and errors
The temperature has been up and down here over the past few days. Sunshine and blue sky one day and snow the next. When it's windy it...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Apr 13
- 6 min
Walking and thinking
Thought that I’d show you where I am on the map: The route for walking or snow mobile from Illulissat to Oqaatsut is shown as the black...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Apr 8
- 3 min
More snow - less washing
Blog post 2 Thursday April 7th 2022 It’s -6°C this morning when I get up and head over to the other house for some porridge. It snowed...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Apr 6
- 5 min
Slow time - fast time: conversations with Greenland landscape
I’ve been wandering around Copenhagen for a few days with Steve, visiting museums and galleries, overheating in the famous greenhouses,...
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Janette Kerr
- Jul 26, 2021
- 3 min
Waiting
We are at the Scandic Hotel, Forus, where we have found ourselves incarcerated for the next 3 days while the authorities make sure that...
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Mar 30, 2020
- 1 min
Experimenting with frozen landscapes
Given I have been working in a frozen landscape it seemed appropriate to make some work reflecting this
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Mar 28, 2020
- 1 min
Scenes of Skagaströnd from solargraphs
My project setting up pinhole cameras around Skagaströnd has now finished. The cameras were made from beer cans that I brought with me.
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Mar 20, 2020
- 5 min
Snow blindness, hysteria and beauty
Another morning of snow and wind. Then the weather suddenly clears, changing dramatically to become an afternoon of calm and sunlight.
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Mar 16, 2020
- 2 min
A fishy Icelandic tale
I’m up at 6am – a time that really doesn’t suite me but I’m off on a sea voyage with Skagaströnd fishermen who have agreed to take me. For t
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Janette Kerr Land of Ice
- Mar 12, 2020
- 4 min
A paler shade of white
Travelling though a white landscape snow covered, snow blowing - no visible horizon - no telling scale
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