ICE MEMORIES

Ice Memories is a project in the context of climate change and
global warming that bridges the gap between art and science.

Photographs visualize the atmosphere of past millennia embedded in the global ice masses of our planet to create awareness of their importance. These ice masses are a time capsule for us humans as they enable us to look back in time.

THE PHENOMENON OF MEMORY

In a world of constant change and transience, we all want to hold on to life‘s extraordinary moments forever. Preserving a fleeting instant of time, making it eternal – to guide us, to remind us.

Photographs represent truth, through their ability to capture memories in all their details that we create on our journey. Memories of people and places, and emotionally significant moments or experiences in our lives.

But photographs also trigger us and take us back, bringing up what we once lived. In the flux of time, they are persistence.

In his work the Sahara Sand Series, Ingo Rasp documents a phenomenon in the Swiss Alps with aerial photographs, using it as a narrative on the universal process of becoming and decaying.