For much of the last decade, Cold Spring-based artist Jaanika Peerna has focused her practice on climate change and melting glaciers. Glacier Elegies (Terra Nova Press, 2021) documents Peerna’s work, a blend of drawing, installation, and performance that has taken the artist across the globe, from the Hudson Valley to Europe and her native Estonia.
As Janet Passehl writes in the introduction to the book, “Glacier Elegy is ‘Ozymandias’ for the era of climate change, delivered by the messenger of a god who loves her wayward children.”
Parting Shot: Jaanika Peerna’s Glacier Elegies
This article appears in February 2022.
