The artist Nicholas Hutcheson has created an ongoing series of short time-lapse drawings of the Antarctic landscape. In 2008 Nicholas spent 8 weeks as an artist in residence for the Austrailian Antarctic Divsion where he produced many drawings as he journeyed in and around the content. On his return he has created an online series of short animations to capture the sense of movement and time within the landscape which he now shares with DRN.
Antarctic Time-Lapse Drawings
Nicholas Hutcheson
“Out there, you have a constant awareness of movement and time. Some of it is so slow – gigantic icesheets flowing towards the sea at seemingly imperceptible rates – but then, you can also watch the sea water become ice, and weather fronts moving across the horizon. And the majority of what makes up the landscape is frozen water. It’s defined by this ever-creeping whiteness – in compositional terms, a mass of negative space.”
In a response to how to capture this within his drawings, Nicholas began to play with making experimental short animations – these time-lapse drawings of the landscape.
You can view many more of these animations here: www.vimeo.com/album/231684
You can also see more of Nicholas’s drawings and work by visiting his website: http://nicholashutcheson.com/antarctic/flash_content/overview.html
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