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- Goundhog automatic weather station (left), the Umthombo Womlilo wind/solar generator (center), and the ICEPAC mobile base(right)
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- Inside the ICEPAC, view of living quarters with our sub-zero sleeping bags, room lighting and video projector–all wind and solor powered!
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- Erika, still confounded by Merleau-Ponty’s “Phenomenology of Perception”
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- Thomas, sipping morning coffee in the hammock
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- Erika and Ntsikelelo lounging around at ICEPAC
Day 25; February 16, 2009; Vesleskaervet, Dronning Maud Land, Antarctica
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The last three days were entirely given over to the completion of the ITASC expedition, and all of our work in the field.
After shooting the interior photographs of ICEPAC for the exhibition catalogue, and finishing each of our individual art projects, we began the complete removal of the mobile base—an exhaustive experience that took 30 consecutive hours of hard manual labor in the freezing cold.
It was a significant moment, as it marked the successful end of ITASC’s four-year undertaking. It also held the distinct poignancy, that subtle sorrow, that comes with seeing such a huge project come to fruition.
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