Line Bøhmer Løkken, Immersed in Stone – Black Ice, 2019

The book is comprised of photographs Løkken made while dwelling with the disappearing glaciers of Jotunheimen National Park. That the artist was an unwitting accomplice to the photographs’ creation is paramount—an immersed experience yielded photographs made without conscious intention. Subsequent review revealed that a physical imprint had been recorded—a phenomenological engagement with precarious terrain. Within Immersed in Stone, framed rectangular landscapes are destroyed, releasing a full-spread chaos where Nature is a verb. The photo book provides the viewer a physical-seeing, an experience of our collective falling that is at once timely, now, and yet utterly primordial.