They Look Like Ants

The Aesthetic of the Poles: A Testament of Ice took a whole crew of people to create. It is the result of lengthy research of journals and other accounts from people who have taken the risk and explored the land for themselves. The thought behind it is that when people think of the vast land occupied by the arctic that there is a sense of adventure and daring. The arctic represents the total opposite of the world we live in now, where everything has a place it's supposed to be and a way in which to act. Once you get to the arctic, however, there's nothing there but you.

What drew me to this article was the picture that went along with it. There's nothing but white. A very faint horizon line is barely visible. Then, in the middle of the white nothingness, there is an imposing ship breaking through the ice and heading toward a lone person standing on the ice and snow. It gave me the feeling of being so small in comparison to everything else, and I wasn't even the person standing so small in front of the huge ship and in the middle of the one place where humans cannot live successfully.