“I was walking along the road with two friends – the sun was setting – suddenly the sky turned blood red – I paused, feeling exhausted, and leaned on the fence – there was blood and tongues of fire above the blue-black fjord and the city – my friends walked on, and I stood there trembling with anxiety – and I sensed an infinite scream passing through nature.” -Edvard Munch, 1895

The Scream of the Arctic is a map of the future Arctic polar region as it undergoes climate change. In it, recently opened shipping lanes are already well exploited due to the disappearance of sea ice, once frozen permafrost is rapidly thawing, methane is burning, ice sheets are melting, harmful algae blooms are proliferating. The warmer Arctic is rendered in an expressionist manner and titled after Edvard Munch's painting The Scream (1893), imposing primal anxieties and subjective expression over empirical geographic topography.