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waters, a small series emerges - a nod to the mythical Qalupalik. All too soon it is time to return home and I find it difficult to adjust to life back on the gentler shores of the Wirral. My head is still many hundreds of miles away and somehow I need to draw a line under my Arctic experience. Over the past few years I have been learning various bookbinding techniques, making handcrafted books as an alternative way of presenting my work - a way of showing images that would never be printed for exhibition or for my own wall, but that may combine to tell a narrative.. And so the ‘Qalupalik’ images are brought to life in the shape of a small leporello-bound book, housed in a frosted ‘ice’ presentation case. My little bit of the Arctic in a box, something to take down from my bookshelf occasionally, an object to hold, memories to treasure. A copy currently resides in the Ilulissat Kunstmuseum and it seems somehow fitting that the images have found their way back to the place where they were created.

I, too, long to return - perhaps I shall follow the birds even further north next time...

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