Heroism

Andrea Legge; Harley Cowan; Hannah Larrabee; Jessica Creane; Andrea Legge; Harley Cowan; Hannah Larrabee; Jessica Creane

doi:10.16995/regeneration.20227

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.

The author declares they have no competing interests.

Arctic: Crevasse

Hannah Larrabee

I didn’t think

Svalbard was a world

of moss and lichen,

especially in October,

though certain places

held a glaze of ice

on each granite erratic,

but then I didn’t think

I knew the Arctic

before arriving;

I was relieved

by how little it

cared for us

my poems

are an exercise

in living in ways

I cannot, though

I studied, closely,

the sharp peaks

of the mountains,

the moss-covered antlers,

each glacier just out

of reach, even the one

I touched

was running water

underneath,

it had no voice,

if it had a voice

the sound would break us

into deep vermillion,

thank God

there are still places

not subject to our pleasure,

and the last morning

I took a Polaroid

of the low Arctic sun

and it burned a hole

in my film, it said

in this blink of time

you are alive

look at all that you took with you—

November 15, 2023

Final Day @ Gipsvika

Hannah Larrabee

Final Day @ Gipsvika, Polaroid, 3” x 4”, 2022.

The author declares they have no competing interests.

Jessica Creane

Harley Cowan

Jessica Creane, 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.