Sun-bleached ribbons
Lopez’ book provides, among other things, a history of the exploration (and exploitation) of the Arctic, and what a ship...
Time in two dimensions
A striking metaphor for time hovering or collapsing, in two versions of a bird, alive and flying, or keeling and...
Light-drowned tundra
Light in the Arctic seems to move between extremes of deprivation and dazzlement. Elsewhere Lopez talks about a ‘light-poor desert’,...
The slope of time
The more I connect with the past, the more I connect with the present, and I liked this use of...
Ice-crushed
In this description of a 250 ton ship being crushed by the unforgiving shift and grind of pack ice, you...
Oddly hinged
A beautiful way to remind us that all may not be as it seems. Oddly hinged is more interested than...
Podcast review – Barry Lopez’ Arctic Dreams
Listening time: 15 minutes. It’s about a quarter of a century since I first read this moving...
High-tempered light
Something bright and uplifting about this light, as long as you have protection from its blinding effects. And what a...
Dove-colored sky
I imagine a soft-white snow-plump cloud cover, just before it shakes out its feather-flake down. Obsessed with sky, I will...
Time as a hovering hawk
I am fascinated by perspectives of time, and here it’s memorably described as a rough-legged hawk, or, when it implodes,...
Ice-choked rivers
A European would normally use ‘choked’ to describe a river full of algae or weeds or pollution. ‘Ice-choked’ gives a...
Jade-green vegetation
An image of verdancy that doesn’t quite chime with our impressions of endless Arctic white and blue.
Source: Barry Lopez,...
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