Glacial blue ice from the Kalaallit Nunaat (Greenland) Ice Sheet will be transformed into a reverential sculpture, a reliquary, travelling the world as a frozen ambassador, representing the interests of the Arctic environment and the Indigenous peoples who reside there.

The Last Ice Project is a memorial to the melting ice — the creation of a sacred space to contemplate and connect with the beauty and importance of what is vanishing, and in this contemplation, the opportunity to discover the courage, the ideas, the collective strength to reverse the melting — to be part of the resurrection.

The ice will serve as both a relic of significance, and a cultural ambassador, to signify awareness of the planet’s climatic upheaval. The journey to recover the ice will show how peoples from across the planet can come together – in joy, in reverence – to save what is most valuable, most precious, and most fragile. 

Greenlandic Inuit shaman and project member Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq: “It’s not enough to know, it’s about doing something about what you know.” The beautiful ice will be seen as a treasure as Greenland’s ice disappears. The project, film and radio podcasts will frame Angaangaq’s message where we may be part of the solution. The piece serves as a messaging platform, informed by science, and Indigenous wisdom. We plan to engage the public through exhibitions in Greenland, Europe, and the US. Angaangaq Angakkorsuaq continues, “It’s time to look with eyes of faith into our future and believe we can make a difference. If we have hope, there is potential for extraordinary change – things will survive. The Elders teach us if we return to harmony in our lives, melting the ice in our hearts, reconnecting with one another, we will survive. It is time to use this knowledge to help us all.”