ANIMATION

The Angie ARchive

Hand drawn visuals for Claire Maske’s film The Angie Archive.

For more info about the film go to Claire’s site.

Ice Lake

Ice lake is a tribute to Ferry Glacier, the large and remote glacier that once resided deep within the Bailey range of the Olympic Penninsula. Glaciers are considered "vital signs' of our climates health, and when Olympic National park started monitoring it's glaciers in 1982, Ferry glacier was one of the largest in the park. By 2009, it had melted completely, resulting in Ice Lake. The rate of glacial recede has almost quadrupled since 2009, influencing the Olympic National Park Service to create Terminus: A Glacier Memorial Project. Ice Lake is my animated contribution to the collaborative gallery that seeks to be a plea for action, as well as mourn the glaciers already lost.

Ice lake, moves through a changing, morphing landscape that has transformed with time. Throughout every transition, from mastodons to grey wolves to lava lamps and macroinvertebrates, the water remains and life- in some form- remains. However, the glaciers are a signifier of balance, and so we cannot expect their melting to not sculpt our lives as they have before. The moving image collage includes the insignificant details of our daily lives that are so closely tied to even the most distant icy peaks of a remote mountain range. Objects of both monumental progress and mundanity share space with the aerial transformation of the glacier.

The sound was recorded in Hoh rainforest, where the salmon splash in the cold glacial melt, the slugs eat decay, and the old growth forest remains.

2022