“Voices From the Melt” A Communal Offering for the Cryosphere
“Voices From the Melt – A Communal Offering for the Cryosphere” is a participatory ecoart project inviting participants to honor glacier loss through shared poetic expression and embodied action. Through guided meditation, reflective writing, and a collective mending, attendees contribute to the creation of a large-scale textile “art-ifact” that symbolically reconstructs a vanishing glacier—stitch by stitch, word by word. This living offering becomes both elegy and action—a call to witness, remember, and respond.
A Living Archive of Climate Grief, Witness, and Kinship
“Voices From the Melt” is a growing collective elegy—an invitation to share your voice in response to the profound transformations unfolding across our cryosphere and climate. As the ice retreats, we are left with more than data—we are left with stories, memories, grief, love, and longing. This project gathers those human and more-than-human echoes, archiving them as part of “With The Meltwaters, So Too We Go“, a multidisciplinary art project centering emotional landscapes shaped by climate change.
Through small written gestures, Voices From the Melt offers a space for reflection, mourning, witnessing, and the expression of hope and stewardship. Contributions will be part of future exhibitions, public installations, and an online archive—a collective chorus calling out across melting time.
How to Participate
1. Email Your Contribution
Submit a 1-2 line written piece (poem, reflection, or visual writing) by email. Feel free to share a specific memory, a personal connection to a place affected by melting ice, a reflection on climate grief, or a message to future generations. All languages and forms are welcome. You are welcome to include your name & location.
Email to:
[email protected]
2. Request a Physical “Ice Sheet”
Prefer something tactile? Request a special “ice sheet” — a handmade, biodegradable paper form designed to carry your voice into the archive.
We’ll send it to you with a postage-paid return envelope so you can write, draw, or reflect and send it back with ease.
To request an ice sheet, simply mail us a postage paid envelope with your name and mailing address to:
Voices From the Melt
PO BOX 93
Round Lake, NY 12151 USA
Write your contribution on the “ice sheet” and mail it back to us. Your returned “ice sheet” will become part of a growing archive of climate grief, memory, and witness — a slow-moving, glacier-like record of human connection to vanishing cold worlds.
Why It Matters
Each voice becomes part of a collective elegy — an act of remembering, of witnessing, and of refusing to look away. These submissions will be woven into future public art installations, exhibitions, and publications to honor and elevate the lived experience of climate grief and kinship with the disappearing cryosphere.
Through storytelling, mourning, and shared remembrance, Voices From the Melt invites us to deepen our connection to the more-than-human world and each other — to grieve together, imagine together, and act with care.
