Snow Inuit
C-Print
160 x 120 cm
Edition 1/5
2005
Inuit landscape. The photograph has been refashioned using photomosaic freeware, linked to Google’s Image Search function. The final result is a composite of 10,000 images available on the Internet that responded to the 18 words that correspond to "snow" in the Eskimo language (to be precise in the dialect of the Umingmaktormiut tribe as proposed by linguist Cecil Adams) as search criteria: "akuvijarjuak" (thin ice in the sea), "anijo" (snow on the ground), "hiko" (ice in generic expression), "hikuliaq" (thin ice), "ivuneq" (high pack ice), "kaniktshaq" (snow in generic expression), "kanut" (fresh snow without any ice), "kuhugaq" (icicle), "manelaq" (pack ice), "maneraq" (smooth ice), "nahauliq" (snow bunting), "nilak" (freshwater ice), "peqalujaq" (rather old ice), "pugtaq" (drift ice), "qanik" (falling snow), "quahak" (fresh ice without any snow), "tsikut" (large broken-up masses of ice blocks), "tugartaq" (firm, winter ice).