A multimodal collaboration between artists, writers, and scholars. This piece emerged from an expedition to the Arctic archipelago as part of the Arctic Circle Residency in Autumn 2022.
Subjective Heroism 01, 02, 03
Andrea Legge
Subjective Heroism 01. Andrea Legge 2023
Photogrammetric 3D model still of SV Antigua and environment including camera POV data interpreted by handheld iPhone and Agisoft Metashape. Created October 10, 2022, at Liefdefjorden, Hornbaekpollen, Svalbard. Special thanks to The Arctic Circle Residency Program and The Canada Council for the Arts.
Subjective Heroism 02. Andrea Legge 2023
Photogrammetric 3D model still of SV Antigua under sail and environment including camera POV data interpreted by handheld iPhone and Agisoft Metashape. Created October 15, 2022, at Isafjorden, Templefjorden, Svalbard. Special thanks to The Arctic Circle Residency Program and The Canada Council for the Arts.
Subjective Heroism 03. Andrea Legge 2023
Photogrammetric 3D model (point cloud) still of SV Antigua under sail including camera POV data interpreted by handheld iPhone and Agisoft Metashape. Created October 15, 2022, at Isafjorden, Templefjorden, Svalbard. Special thanks to The Arctic Circle Residency Program and The Canada Council for the Arts.
The author declares they have no competing interests.
Anchorage at Virgohamna
Harley Cowan
Anchorage at Virgohamna, Silver gelatin print, 2022.
I collaborated with Jessica Creane, a likely relative of Tom Crean (the family spelling changed over the years), to make her portrait in the style of Frank Hurley’s famous portrait of Crean with puppies. After all, I had my large format camera, black and white film, and a darkroom. Jessica, a writer, chose to hold a pen in her teeth in place of a pipe. Our tall ship had a dark, wooden door but, unlike Crean and his plethora of puppies, we had but one fully-grown dog onboard. He was named Hildago (not Hidalgo) and was brought along by our guide Piotr Kupiszewski. Hildago patiently sat for our one-second exposure, at least for the second attempt. The first time, he slowly slipped back to the floor the instant I had clicked the shutter.
This film, like Hurley’s a century earlier, was hand-developed onboard our tall ship in a makeshift darkroom.
Frank Hurley (1885–1962) – National Library of Australia – Tom Crean rears an Antarctic family, Public Domain.
The author declares they have no competing interests.
Blah Arctic
Jessica Creane
Blah Arctic, Slide presentation originally shown onboard Antigua October, 2022.