‘Two people fall in love, they travel by dog sled to the mountains to be alone. For many days they make love.
They are now on their way back to the village, and from the sled they can see the warm fire glow from the igloos along the coast line. They stop the sled and let the dogs sleep, so they can have just one more night alone.
I want to communicate the feeling of Greenland and the nature with my suite, for guests to feel a bit of how small we are in the nature of Greenland. It is hard to communicate with €lm and sculpture the enormity of the ice, this is why we have to go back, to see it with our own eyes.’
Matthias Hallin
Matthias Hallin is an expeditioner and €lm maker, he has had a keen interest in the Arctic for over 20 years. After his €rst journey to Svalbard he knew he had caught ‘polar fever’ and must go back.
‘I was sculpting into 60,000 year old glacial ice full of small bubbles and as I drew my ice chisel through it and let out the air so old, it was a religious feeling.’
He has since been on several expeditions to Svalbard and Greenland and is currently working on a documentary €lm about local hunters in East Greenland whilst travelling with them on dog sled and boat, in the pursuit of musk ox and seal.
Matthias Hallin