Humano Terrarum
Blends
Pieces from this collection have featured in the following exhibitions:
UPCOMING – IMEQ-ETERNAL FLUX – Det Grønlandkse Hus, Copenhagen, Denmark – October 30th, 2025 to January 9th, 2026
ARCTIC TERRAIN – Nordatlantiskhus, Odense, Denmark – April 25th to August 31st, 2024
In the Collection of Humano Terrarum Blends, the artist combines portrait photography, with models augmented in a fashion to create a visual bridge to the natural landscape. For some artworks, such as Kinaussaq, the model is painted with contour lines, in others, such as Nittaallat mikisut I and II, a light dusting mirrors the effects of freshly-fallen snow. The human landscape is then blended with images from the mountains and valleys of Greenland. Landscapes and poses are chosen to fit together, like the symbiosis which exists between humans and the natural environment we inhabit.
We are reminded of the power of nature – the influence of fire and rock, of life-giving water, dramatically forming and re-forming the scenery, giving and taking life.
Talorsuit
41 x 61 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
At a lofty 1490 metres above Nuup Kangerlua (Godthåbsfjord), Talorsuit is the 'Mountain which shades the Earth'. As it casts deep evening shadows over the settlement of Qooqqut its dominance over the land and sea is reflected in the deep blues and browns in the model – recalling that we are all subject to the basic rules of physics. Much as we think we can control our environment, the Earth rotates, darkness follows light follows darkness. We are fools to think we can live separately from our world.
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Sagdliata portornga
40 x 60 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
The peak of Sagdlia where the ice-rounded mountains of Nuuk-fjord give themselves to new life. The mountain offers its nutrients as rock powder to flora and fauna blanketing the landscape. A Port Lligat in Greenland.
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Kajortoq II
46 x 60 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
At the end of autumn, the saturated palette in reds, purples and browns gives way to the fall of snow and the creeping of ice. Kajortoq, or brown, recalls the intimate connection between human and environment in this magical, transitional season where water sits on the edge of solid and liquid.
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Nuka
72 x 46 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
Nuka is the Greenlandic word for a woman's younger sister. Here, the woman is the Earth, with the model being her little sister. Connected by blood – almost the same, but still with plenty to learn. The piece challenges the idea of woman, humankind, being born of Earth. Rather we are one and a part of the same living entity. What we do shapes our environment, and our environment shapes us, although always we remain the littler sister.
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Kinaussaq
72 x 48 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
The dramatic cliffs and peaks of Kinaussaq – those that invoke a face – recline on the approach to Kapisillit. A constant flux of river-torn boulders fall from 1645 m above sea level – the cycle of our living landscape.
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Sikup ikuallannera
86 x 60 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
Sikup ikuallannera means 'Ice fire', invoking the dramatic origins of the mountain of Pyramidefjeld, South Greenland. The heart of an ancient volcano, shot through with diamond-bearing rocks. Born in fire, sculpted by ice and rain.
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Nittaallat mikisut I
46 x 36 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
As snow gently dusts the landscape, Nittaallat mikisut, winter's water warms and protects from the dark chill. To become rivers, to become ice – no matter the result it sustains us.
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Kajortoq
46 x 60 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
As the leaves of the heather fade, autumn is a time of a saturated palette in reds, purples and browns. This is the time where Greenland's landscape most closely reflects human terrain in colour as well as form. As the Earth transitions into an anthropogenic order, Kajortoq, or 'brown', recalls the intimate connection between human and environment in this magical, transitional season.
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Qooqqut
86 x 67 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
Below the dramatic Talorsuit – 'The Mountain which shades the Earth' lies the settlement of Qooqqut. Perched between the ice-gouged mountains and the fingers of the cold, North Atlantic reaching into Nuup Kangerlua, Qooqqut provides a warm and safe haven.
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Ukkusissaq
65 x 48 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
Ukkusissaq is soapstone, and the ridge which hosts Store Malene, Nuuk's sentinal. Even the minerals themselves hold water with soapstone being made of talc, a hydrous form of a common mineral from the Earth's depths. Water everywhere.
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Nittaallat mikisut II
46 x 31 cm
Diasec™ on ISO 9706 paper
Edition strictly limited to 9
As snow gently dusts the landscape, Nittaallat mikisut, winter's water warms and protects from the dark chill. To become rivers, to become ice – no matter the result it sustains us.
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In this series, the model’s body acts as a template for draping digitally represented real-world locations. Manually augmented - sometimes with her curves contoured in ink - studio photography and terrain data (whether landscape photography, or satellite data) are married into the final pieces.
Artworks incorporating remote-sensing data use modified European Space Agency Copernicus Sentinel raster data from 2020. These data were draped over elevation data from the Polar GeoSpatial Center's ArcticDEM issued under CC-BY-4.0.
mthStudios use only the very best archive-quality materials. Each photograph is one of an editioned series strictly limited to nine prints in perpetuity. The images are realised with highest archive-quality professional materials - paper, inks, acrylic and bonding materials guaranteed under ISO 9706. Diasec™ acrylic lamination leads the field, typically with a maximum of one production facility licensed per country worldwide. With image integrity in excess of 200 years, each art work becomes both artwork and investment. Further information about the Diasec™ printing process can be found here. All mthStudio prints are delivered with a unique serial code issued by the printer and referenced on a separate Certificate of Authenticity, embossed and signed by the artist.