Main Gallery Exhibit: ALL ICE IS WATER BUT NOT ALL WATER IS ICE

All Ice Is Water But Not All Water Is Ice
(and other things you learn in the book Outer Space is Closer Than Antarctica)
a COOL show by Michelle Ott
ON VIEW: July 3 through August 16th | Opening Party July 4th, 12-3

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"H2O exists in three states: liquid, gas (or vapor), and ice. The difference is created by how tightly packed the molecules are when heat or cold is applied. In 2006 I took these photographs of the sea ice near McMurdo Station in Antarctica. This ice, about eight feet of frozen sea, sits on top of the sea water which rides between the ice and the earth. I walked on the ice as if it were solid ground that day. Now, this ice is long-melted and has exchanged itself back into water or vapor. No longer a solid, it is now clouds or ocean. Isn’t it amazing? The fact that I stood on that specific ice and now we can view the pictures; evidence of my walk but portals for us to see water in all three of its potential states.

My book, Outer Space is Closer Than Antarctica weaves together three things at once: A memoir, an atlas, and an almanac. Crisscrossing between illustrations and stories my hope is that the book will lure folks into science knowledge by sharing the awe I experience while learning about life and Antarctica. Like the photos of ice which also look like ocean or clouds, the book reveals my multifaceted observations of love and earth science."