Summer Minimum

Summer Minimum Panels is an ongoing body of work translating sea ice data from the Arctic summer minimum into visual form — showing how much ice remains at the end of the summer melt, and how rapidly this has declined over the last 50 years.

The work is structured across five panels, each representing a decade from the 1980s onwards, following the period after the first satellite records in 1979. Across the sequence, the remaining sea ice progressively decreases and breaks apart, revealing long-term patterns of loss and fragmentation.

The work incorporates seabed maps that chart areas newly exposed through the retreat of sea ice.

The first version functions as a visual sketch — a way of translating the idea into material form. It acts as a starting point for a larger immersive installation, where the work will develop into layered environments incorporating film and sound. Transparency in the materials reflects the qualities of film and shifting visibility within the ice itself.

A related work, Winter Maximum, will explore the opposite condition — translating the state, density, and extent of sea ice at its winter peak.

The work continues to develop as an evolving system of data, material, and environment.