The ancient Greeks had a myth of a land far in the north, home of the boreal winds, where the sun never sets. This body of work considers the polar regions as a metaphor for mental scapes. What kind of people are drawn to such extremes, does the harsh physical surroundings reflect the inner realities of such people?

On a failed attempt to reach the North Pole, stranded on ice, the Norwegian explorer and scientist Fridtjof Nansen and his crew member Johansen spent a winter in the region of Franz Josef’s Land in a humble makeshift hut they called “The Hole”. Both suffered bedsores, as they spent most of their time in The Hole by laying down. It was there, after two years into the voyage, that the men began using their first names to address one another when Nansen addressed his friend as Hjalmar.