LIBBIE J. MASTERSON
Antarctica 360 degrees.
Installation at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston. 22 feet diameter. 2008
Traveling to Iceland and Norway, I was introduced to the beauty of ice and how it is affected by the quality of light in that part of the world. It was an amazing sense of calmness and quiet that I experienced there, and my work is a study of that light and the stillness it brings. I couple these transparent images with light panels to capture a bit of that experience of light and that subtle feeling of loosing the sense of where you are. I continue to explore these landscapes, in Scandinavia, Alaska, and Antarctica collecting imagery of their dramatic terrains of ice, fjords and volcanoes. My large-scale pieces and installations want to recreate that feeling that is represented by these remote places, where the solitude and the stillness are at the same time both haunting and beautiful to me.
