The Certainties to Which We’ve Become Seasoned

The Certainties to Which We’ve Become Seasoned considers the embodied experiences of living within climate change: the feeling that we live with a constant awareness of our rapidly changing planet, that colours our daily experiences of life, weather, and especially seasonal change. This body of work uses cyanotypes to document pieces of ice collected from the Grand River (in Cambridge, Ontario) during the winters of 2024 and 2025. As the ice samples start to melt under the sun during the long exposures, the images blur and shift to varying degrees (depending on the day’s temperature and brightness), capturing that sense of destabilization and deep seasonal uncertainty that surrounds us because of climate change.