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Swell, Southern Ocean near 50 S, Antarctica
by Stuart Klipper

ARTIST STATEMENT

My photography has addressed both the manifold qualities of the places in our world and the myriad ways we experience our placement in it. I’ve covered a lot of territory in my travels, but of all the places I have directly experienced, Antarctica stands foremost as the single—and signal—place towards which my soul has been most insistently driven. When there, smack in its midst, I am where (to paraphrase my friend Barry Lopez) my soul feels most ‘right.’

Those of us who feel the pull of the Poles are fired by fierce and inexplicable passions. For my part, it has been when I’m on the Ice that I know I have felt the loom of epiphany; that I’ve gained my most intense awareness of the numinous. Here, above all else, clarity and transcendence prevail. On this harsh, austere and primordial continent, the compass of my embrace becomes its broadest. Here, in this uttermost place, awash in its wonder, I have, unfathomably, found a subsuming sense of grace. The work I do there takes on the cast of a mission, a mission suffused with ardor and awe.

By my lights, all of that which can be experienced in the Antarctic can be infused with an innate, primal and subsuming metaphysical presence—to its very core it bears a charge of the sacral. It is an otherworldly place, the edge of the Earth—its farthest horizon. Being present there approximates, in essence, being apart from the planet itself, being a part of the firmament.

Aside from our Earth’s oxygen, Antarctica holds more in common with the alien surfaces of other planets and moons than it does with the surrounds it shares on its home orb. It is a daunting, distinct and distant realm that hovers nebulously at the far asymptote of all human ken; a sublime and uncertain, ethereal and empyrean world—a world unto its own, a world fraught with awe and immanence. It harbors glories known nowhere else. Its beauty is inchoate and elusive; its truth is elemental and ever enigmatic.

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Swell, Southern Ocean near 50 S, Antarctica

by Stuart Klipper

archival pigment print
available framed

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  • Limited-edition, exclusive to 20x200
  • Museum quality: archival inks, 100% cotton rag paper
  • Artist-signed + numbered certificate of authenticity included
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  • Available framed or print only

These prints are created using archival pigment inks on 100% cotton rag paper with a luster finish.

Our quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the images, not the printed image itself. We do not alter the aspect ratio, nor do we crop or resize the artists’ originals. All of our prints have a minimum border of .5 inches to allow for framing. A representation of the image on 11″×14″ paper is shown below:

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We recommend a custom frame in white solid wood with UV protected plexiglass and a white archival mat. Please note: Framed art may take up to 4 weeks to ship. Available for U.S. orders only.

  • 11"x14 print offered in 16.5"x19.5" frame (3/4” front profile x 1 1/4” side profile)
  • 20"x24" print offered in 26.5"x30.5" frame (3/4” front profile x 2” side profile)
  • 30"x40" print is dry mounted and framed to the image (3/4” front profile x 2” side profile), with spacers and enhanced UV plexi glass

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All of our prints have a minimum border of .25 inches to allow for framing. We do not alter the aspect ratio, crop or resize the artists' originals—quoted dimensions are for the size of paper containing the image, not the printed image itself.