Learning About Ice Pressure Ridges
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 feel your way alongside them to find an appropriate point of crossing.
Ice-pressure ridges perform a re-directive of a seemingly less voluntary nature than the invitations explained before. That is because an ice-pressure ridge does not so much depend on our active attunements, as it submits and exposes us to the conditions and boundaries within which we encounter the larger apparatuses at play.
Ice pressure ridges de/marcate both the boundaries of this knowledge-land-scape, as well as the extent of possibilities for readers to make their own tracing/threading/wayfaring choices. Like in community-based research, not everything is possible in this Knowledge-Land-Scape.
Like invitations such ridges may constitute a trail of multiple events and encounters. Also like invitations, they often materialize in unanticipated insights and outcomes.
This ridge ends here.
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