Writing
Great writing is about communicating the details of emotion and experience in evocative prose. I wouldn’t begin to claim a capacity for great writing, but I do my best to convey my environment, or scientific information, or simply an observation in a way that pulls you in and takes you there. Hopefully anyway!
These are some pieces I’ve written along the way for different reasons. I’ve also written for several of the films on the Film page of this website.
Reckoning with Ice
Reckoning with Ice Svalbard 2022 By: Andrea Sparrow Days aboard a ship can be difficult to parse afterwards. Routine gives structure to time, but around you the land and weather are constantly shifting. In Svalbard this seems particularly true. For a time the land...
Postcards from the Arctic: Canadian Rockies, September 2021
Postcards from the Arctic: Documenting Ice Loss in Canada’s Rocky Mountains By: Andrea Sparrow & Kerry Koepping Canada opened its borders to US citizens in September. While Covid-19 continues to make travel challenging, the Arctic Arts team jumped through all the...
Postcards from the Arctic: Iceland May, 2021
Postcards from the Arctic: Iceland 2021 Our team’s travels to Iceland were a wonderful success! There have been a number of scientific papers recently about glacial ice loss in peri-arctic and high alpine regions around the world. Our intention was to see for...
Presentation to the International Union for the Conservation of Nature, June 2019
Presentation to the IUCN, Brussels, June 2019 Good morning! My name is Andrea Sparrow. I represent The Arctic Arts Project. We are a group of visual communicators dedicated to documenting the science of climate change in the Arctic and around the planet. In April of...
Letter to a Friend, 2006
On happiness. I think it is entrenched in our culture that to be less than happy is somehow a failure. We are an immensely privileged society and whether by experience or intuition, we know that there is little need in many of our lives. Guilt, or maybe it’s shame,...