A lone figure cares for an extraordinarily beautiful iceberg frozen into Arctic sea ice.  Known to Inuit as kassoq they are exquisitely coloured formations of translucent glacier ice, created under enormous pressure at the bottom of the Greenland ice sheet. As such, they may be millennia in the making.

Mopping, sweeping and polishing of fallen snow is punctuated by moments of connection between the ice (of which we can know only the 10% floating above water) and their human carer.

The area surrounding an iluliaq, or iceberg, is a dangerous place to be since the sea ice here is fragile and the bergs, eroded from below by warm water, can overturn without warning. Belying their monolithic appearance, icebergs are in constant transformation by the elements and, more recently, by manmade global warming.  Arctic icebergs are expected to greatly decrease as Greenland’s glaciers retreat onto dry land*