Abisko Collective Light Drawing

Abisko Collective Light Drawing

60x82 cm, Epson archival digital print, 2022

Some fifteen students of the workshop Art, Arctic, Climate at the Abisko Science Research Center were asked to take a walk at night on the ice of lake Torneträsk in the Swedish Arctic, and draw lines with the torchlight function of their mobile phones, while I made a long exposure of ca. 4 hours on black&white FP4 film with a middle format Mamiya 7 analogue camera on a sturdy tripod. The softer lines were made later by two women who were looking for a lost room key, pointing their lights towards the snow. Coincidently, this collaborative and peaceful action happened on February 24, 2022, the day of the Russian invasion in the Ukraine.