ECSTASIES OF INFLUENCE : slippages Immense Immensities

With slippages, I decided that one of the things I wanted to think about was scale -  the landscapes are so vast!  After my trip up to the Athabasca glacier and Columbia ice fields, I began thinking  about how the scale of these kinds of landscapes could be represented. I often work out these preoccupations by painting or drawing. In this case, I chose to paint watercolour miniatures of the landscapes.  I wondered if the way in which miniatures engage the viewer, by drawing you in close, then closer still,  would be a way to communicate the enormous vistas that the ice fields  presented, like Bachelard's immense immensities.  In the interest of full disclosure, I should tell you that any excuse to think about Bachelard is a good excuse, because, well, Bachelard...