Ken Steen, ICE IS WATER IS ICE IS ICE IS WATER IS ICE IS stems from an idea concerning changing states of being, in this case of water. The linguistic play of “states” also refers to actual changing territories or locations of migration. It is intended to serve as a call to individual action, essential pieces in the puzzle of slowing, stabilizing, or even reversing, the negative effects of climate change. I. eleven words use of 11 words in Icelandic, Swedish and Finnish as vaguely distant sonic recollections or imaginings of water in the forms of snow and ice. II. tippua droppa dreypi translates as drip drip drip, in Finnish, Swedish and Icelandic respectively. A metaphor for the slow but steady migration of Nordic peoples to Manitoba, intertwined with evocations of melting glaciers, snowpack and ice Welds. This movement uses the amplitude of the live piano to advance the video of a downpour, frame-by-frame, as though the piano is generating the rain. III. iceblink a white light seen near the horizon, especially on the underside of low clouds, resulting from a reXection of light off an ice Weld immediately beyond: a physical manifestation of the perception of light transformed, as well as a metaphor for hope through migration.

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