As the U.N. Climate Action Summit struggles to find ways to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, temperatures on Svalbard have already risen by 4 degrees Celsius. The permafrost and glaciers are melting at a speed no one could have predicted a few years ago.

We’re out of time.

Millard writes: “Circling a small piece of glacial ice in Hambergbukta I was thinking about time, how much we have, and how we measure it. Knowing rapidly melting polar ice has affected the Earth’s rotation, and therefore the length of the day, I saw a visual analogy between this glowing, rounded, melting piece of ancient ice and our planet. How do we count the days we have left? The minutes? The seconds? How does this representation of time stand in for our sense of connection to place?”

Time as was told
September 11 – October 9, 2025
2015 Dundas Street West

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