ADRIFT

Located deep in the Nordic Wilderness, "Adrift" is a project by land-artist David Popa, where a massive ice fresco was created on the receding glacier located on the border of Norway and Sweden. Popa used only naturally sourced materials such as earth and charcoal mixed solely with the glacier water to create this ephemeral work of art.

In order to fully experience the work watch the Full Documentary on the project page- https://www.davidpopaart.com/adrift

A signed, AR enhanced 1/1 Limited Edition Print will be included with the NFT.

Popa’s work seeks to enter into the realm of anthropology as it relates to origin, nature and the destiny of human beings. By using natural pigments such as charcoal, earth pigments and ground shells, he uses the same raw materials that would have been used in the earliest cave paintings 40,000 years ago. Early cave-painters are assumed to have gone to great lengths to not only collect and create these pigments, but also to create the works within the deep caves they reside in. Similarly, Popa seeks remote locations that appear otherworldly and ethereal. The result is work that appears to be a revealing of a latent life, waiting to be uncovered. This uncovering however, is incredibly brief, as some works have washed back into nature in a matter of a few days.  While the work is being created and documented, unsuspecting events often occur, from bird droppings that appear as dynamic brushstrokes, changing tides that reveal new rock layers, varying light that illuminate various surfaces and even oncoming storms that wash the piece away significantly, which reveal an altered yet beautiful remnant of what was created. It is this dynamic conversation with the ephemeral, natural world that infatuates Popa and beckons the viewer to consider the nature of our brief existence and relish in it’s profound mysteries and everyday miracles.