She looks very different with her snowy coat and the elusive nordlys.
These drawings look so tiny on screen, compared to their metre wide reality. And those metre wide drawings are tiny in comparison to the arctic landscapes that inspired them. The hard part is deciding what not to include.
These are essentially the base layers, the background scenes, but what a stage. The actors are yet to enter, stage left, but once they do they will have a hard time competing with the arctic landscapes.
But then Svalbard is the perfect place to feel so tiny in nature.
It is surprising how it defies the romantic perceptions that have been placed upon it. It can be warm [surprisingly warm]. And dusty. It can be green and orange instead of the expected white of snow and ice. It can be incredibly wild and hostile, but also incredibly calm and fragile. It is vast and empty, yet so full of a million different things. It is constant, but always changing. In the story books it is the land of hardy adventurous men, except Longyearbyen is also a town full of hardy adventurous women.
Looking north. Although there is only about 1,300kms further north that you can go before you start heading south again.