"Reinterpreting Hope Bay through a Skydiving Gaze" by Bianca Lee 
  

Taking the obsolete Hope Bay Gold Mine as the site of intervention, proposing an alternative imagination to Canadian Arctic. The mapping series are reinterpretation of the mine site through Doreen Massey's skydiving gaze. Diving down from outer space , the gaze moves through space and time, to read the landform process of the permafrost ground in different timescale. As the gaze zooms in, the map describes the landscape process that is happening at a shorter timescale. Began with mapping the formation of cryosoil, to the process of thermakast lake, to the action of an ice wedge. Experimenting with seeing the site through the event of permafrost landscape as an alternative narrative, contradicting to the grand narrative imposed to the larger Canadian Arctic context.
1. Formation of Cryosoil
2. Thermakarst Lakes Formation
3. Movements of Polygonal Ground
4. Events of Periglacial Feature
5. Existing Raise Tunnel (Site of Intervention)