Ice Remembers - Alli Harper
Ice Remembers
Alli Harper
Ice is the archivist of the world, holding centuries in its translucent layers. Each trapped bubble is a whisper of ancient winds, a chronicle of forgotten seasons—snowfall, ash, storms, and sunlight pressed into memory. From deep within the frozen earth, it reveals what once was.
Yet it is a fleeting monument, a reminder that in the evolving story of the Earth even the most enduring forms are transient. Ice glitters with the illusion of permanence, yet beneath the sun it thins, softens, and slips quietly back into water, into clouds, into rain. Its brief life mirrors our own—luminous but impermanent. Our time on this planet is equally transient; we change, dissolve, and return to its flow.
Now we begin to see that the ice is loosening its grip. It is thinning, weeping into the sea as the future warms around us. Its long-held stories are beginning to slip away, dissolving at the edges, reminding us that the past is not only something we inherit—it is also something we can lose.
Alli Harper is a photographer based in Naarm, Victoria, Australia. With a background in interior design, she studied photography at Prahran Polytechnic and was awarded Victorian Emerging Photographer of the year in the year of her graduation.
Alli documents urban and natural landscapes, exploring the mythology of place and how we are shaped by it. Our environment mirrors society’s norms and aspirations. As it changes, is repurposed, or abandoned, it holds up a mirror to broader changes taking place and how we see the world around us. Living in a dry continent regularly marred by devastating bushfires, Alli has long been preoccupied with photographing the effects of fire. With the current effects of climate change, this threat becomes even more imminent.
Alli’s work has been exhibited locally and internationally and her work can be found in private collections in Australia and the USA.
https://www.alliharperphotographer.com/
