Image description: A tunnel book of a scene, framed in a painting frame, at the South Pole. In the snow the five men of Robert Falcon Scott's party look on the Norwegian tent-- with the flag of Norway and the Fram-- atop its pole. Flipping the book around, there is, seen through the proscenium arch and curtains of a theatre, the tent and looking at it (now from behind it) the five men. They show a mix of emotions-- tiredness, concern-- but Scott is hidden by the tent's form. When the book is tilted at an angle, Scott can be seen looking at the tent in blank despair. The accordions of the book are monoprinted to look like the gusts of a blizzard. End ID.

Great God! This is an an awful place...

Frimaire CCXXXIV, drypoint & monoprint on paper.

We have been descending again, I think, but there looks to be a rise ahead; otherwise there is very little that is different from the awful monotony of past days. Great God! this is an awful place and terrible enough for us to have laboured to it without the reward of priority.

— Robert Falcon Scott in his diaries, 17th of January, 1912




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Art made by NS or PSEUDEPIGRAPH in the year CCXXXIV or 2025.