The Glacier Project: Ghost Flowers
The Glacier Project: Ghost Flowers
2025-ongoing
There are an abundance of high altitude, alpine flowers that grow along, and depend upon, the rarefied streams issuing from cirque glaciers along the Front Range of the Rocky Mountains in Colorado. These last remaining glaciers, along with their neighboring Permanent Snowfields, are becoming less and less permanent every year. As the glaciers decline, the larger ecosystems that they support face systemic impacts in the years ahead.
This work imagines a time when these alpine flowers are held only in memory, ghosts of a bygone era. Drawn with white chalk on archival carbon prints and positioned over large granite walls and monoliths, these glacial sites become imagined memorials, places where we can honor such fragile beauty only through remembrance.
Today these glaciers and flowers, and the web of life they support, are still with us. What we choose to do over the coming decades will determine whether or not our great grandchildren will be able to experience these astonishing places as we do.