Learning About Ice Pressure Ridges: Difference between revisions

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Where sea-ice meets the shore, or where ice sheets are pushed into each other by their underlying currents, they are forced upwards. Where the ice sheets are forced upwards they shape jagged lines of icy structures across the landscape. When encountering such ice pressure ridges you have to traverse alongside them to find an appropriate point of crossing.

The figure of the Ice-pressure ridge emerged as part of my own experiences when I was taken out on the land or across the ice by the Inuit research collaborators of the BearWatch project, and other community-members. Although the principles of redirection, and trailing along such ice pressure ridges is therefore based on the material realities of moving across the ice, it is also a practice that applies to other processes and events. Covid-19 or delays due to the weather are examples of such events that force us move alongside material agencies outside of our control. Each of these events perform in ways that push you off track, in similar ways that you would when encountering an ice pressure ridge on the ice.

Like invitations such ridges may constitute a trail of multiple events and encounters. Also like invitations, they often materialize in unanticipated insights and outcomes.

Keep following the ridge, until you can return to the cut you came from.

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-The ice pressure ridge is a figure that gestures towards the agencies of the land itself. Where sea-ice meets the shore, or where ice sheets are pushed into each other by their underlying currents, they are forced upwards. Where the ice sheets are forced upwards they shape jagged lines of icy structures across the landscape. When encountering such an ice pressure ridges you have to trail alongside them to find an appropriate point of crossing.
+Where sea-ice meets the shore, or where ice sheets are pushed into each other by their underlying currents, they are forced upwards. Where the ice sheets are forced upwards they shape jagged lines of icy structures across the landscape. When encountering such ice pressure ridges you have to traverse alongside them to find an appropriate point of crossing.
-The figure of the Ice-pressure ridge emerged for the author as result of their own on-the-land experiences when they were taken out on the land by their Inuit research collaborators. Although the principle of redirection, and trailing along such ice pressure ridges is therefore literal, its figurative practice also applies to other events, like Covid-19 or delays due to the weather. Each of these events are the material results of responsive agencies that push you of track on your journey, as if you would encounter an ice pressure ridge on your way.
+The figure of the Ice-pressure ridge emerged as part of my own experiences when I was taken out on the land or across the ice by the Inuit research collaborators of the BearWatch project, and other community-members. Although the principles of redirection, and trailing along such ice pressure ridges is therefore based on the material realities of moving across the ice, it is also a practice that applies to other processes and events. Covid-19 or delays due to the weather are examples of such events that force us move alongside material agencies outside of our control. Each of these events perform in ways that push you off track, in similar ways that you would when encountering an ice pressure ridge on the ice.
-<span class="next_choice"> Like invitations such ridges may constitute multiple events or encounters. And they often lead to unanticipated insights and outcomes. Keep following the ridge, until you can return to the cut you came from. </span>
+Like invitations such ridges may constitute a trail of multiple events and encounters. Also like invitations, they often materialize in unanticipated insights and outcomes.
+<span class="next_choice"> Keep following the ridge, until you can return to the cut you came from. </span>
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