A visual essay by Kingston Trinder and Ester Vonplon
Innermore Arctic Worlds
Spitsbergen, Norway
A vision by Kingston Trinder and Ester Vonplon
Voyaging northward to Spitsbergen upon Norway’s faraway Svalbard archipelago, she examines the collapsing glaciers and withdrawing ice-shelves found across the Arctic Ocean through wholly abstracted, contemplative photographs. Ceaseless whitened landscapes that conjure quixotic visions of Roald Amundsen and Robert Peary, embarking forth upon arduous Arctic journeys, wrought with desolation and mutinous betrayal. She reveals the quietened desecration of Mother Earth, inflicted, of course, through humanity’s cancerous industry; the climate’s transformation enacted by our endless, remorseless narcissism.
Nevertheless, there remains a sublime, sorrowful beauty to these cyan-hued illustrations of decay. Quietened meditations, they cleanse the mind with the absolution of infinite white, allowing one’s thoughts to journey deeply, effortlessly within. Utter nullity offers a welcomed refuge from the maelstrom of thoughts, narratives and visions that often characterise our innermore worlds; spatial dimension disappears beneath the horizonless northern heavens. Time is no more, here, amidst the endless snow-drowned fields, the desolate tundra, the clouds of orphaned floes, and collapsing palisades of aching ice.
Photography. Ester Vonplon
Words. Kingston Trinder
Traveller/s
Kingston Trinder
Writer
That half-ambidextrous writer from darling New Zealand, Kingston Trinder considers himself rather fortunate to author works for several reputable journals, such as this one. Presently he is labouring upon a second, non-fiction book, Lickety Split.
Ester Vonplon
Photographer
