The Arctic Paradox

Aggressor-victim has always been the bi-pole of ever-present life, which, within the vastness of glacial Greenland, converts the qualms of its inherent duality to hunter-prey. A semblance of a work-body, still in progress, constitutes a vignette story with a bittersweet edge multiverse of tangible, yet evanescent, ideas of how global warming tangles with the dynamics of bellicosity. Inuit hunters and a representative sample of Arctic fauna at the brink of extinction- polar bears, foxes, muskoxen and dogs - become Fokion Zissiadis’s creative metaphor of a tongait, a “place of spirits” in Inuit tongue, which holds a deep connection to this environment, while reflecting upon thousands of years of hunting rituals and the ebb and flow of any type of migration. It is this very tongait which expresses Fokion's inmost pledge to a fecund use of his lens toward an awakening and the (little) time that has been left.