A Sign in the Northwest Passage (Video)
2012
HD video
12 min 30 sec      

This video documents several journeys. First, one by snow machine to the billboard sculpture installed on the sea ice. Second, my return by air to Tuktoyaktuk in April 2011 to attempt to find out what happened to the sculpture after the melt in the previous year. Third, a boat trip on the Beaufort Sea with Emmanuel Adam of Tuktoyaktuk — my lead guide for the installation of the billboard — to the same site where the sign was left. Fourth, a flight with Emmanuel along the coast to the east and west of the installation site to attempt to find the wreckage of the sculpture, in case it had run aground.      

According to a scientist who studies the currents and movements of ice in the Beaufort Sea, the sign is likely now thousands of miles to the west, somewhere north of Russia.