In Poustinia, Clark transforms styrofoam, drop cloths, and paint into insightful and meditative artworks based on the artist’s voyage to the driest, coldest, windiest, and highest continent in the world.
 

Since her 2023 expedition to Antarctica, Clark’s has created a body of work focused on the relentless, immutable environment she found there. Inspired by Clark’s photographs, and the land’s own threatening and terrible beauty, Clark builds a vision both divine and sorrowful of this powerful, vulnerable environment.

 

Through Clark’s choice of materials, Poustinia emphasizes and intertwines this dual nature of the Antarctic, and is imbued with a sense of awe at its wild, Inhospitable landscape. Simultaneously physical, spiritual, and ironic, chunks of polystyrene foam, plastic bags, bubble wrap, old charcoal drawings, fabric, and glitter have been transformed to embody Antarctic landscapes, hidden katabatic winds, and Curiously abstracted penguins. 

 

The work, beautiful yet disturbing, juxtaposes the dissonance of the relentless, unyielding nature of the Antarctic with human efforts to grapple with and capitalize on its existence.