Steve Arcone Presents:
Lingering Fall On a New England Pond During Climate Change: Finding the Abstract in Macro Icescapes
Climate change has caused ice on New England lakes and ponds to experience several unusual and sustained episodes of thaw and refreeze during the fall-winter seasons since 2022. This show will present and discuss exotic ice formations I macro imaged during these episodes; most are from Chambers Pond in Chambers Memorial Reserve in West Lebanon, New Hampshire. Vegetative debris not only seeded ice growth but often colored thin transparent ice, thus locally extending the fall foliage season into early winter. At the macro centimeter and decimeter scale, the images I have most sought and present appear abstract and invite personal interpretations.
Bio
Steve Arcone grew up in Greenwich Village, New York City, has a PhD in geophysical exploration from Dartmouth College, and retired from the Cold Regions Laboratory in Hanover, New Hampshire, in 2016. During his career, Steve made more than 40 trips to Alaska to study sea ice, permafrost, and glaciers, and twelve trips to Antarctica to research structures within the West and East Antarctic ice sheets. Steve has been adjunct professor at the Universities of Maine and Connecticut, and at Dartmouth College, and is a juried member of The League of New Hampshire Craftsmen and the New Hampshire Society of Photographic Artists. His present macro-photography projects include pond and brook ice, oil flow, and spider web threads.
