Figure in a dissolving landscape
1 September - 26 September 2020
In the uncontained Australian fire season of summer 2019-20, not only was the sky above much of Aotearoa/New Zealand stained a reddish brown by smoke, dust and ash, there were reports of ‘caramelised’ snow on Franz Josef Glacier and elsewhere in the Southern Alps.
Media photographs featured helicopters flying through dense smoke and landing on beige-coloured alpine snow and ice.