DETAILS

• Title: 'Arctic Indictment' 
• Year: 2018
• Dimensions: 39 x 59 inch / 100 x 150 cm
• Medium: oil on canvas

ABOUT 

In Arctic Indictment, a female figure holds a lifeless bird suspended from a translucent plastic balloon — an image at once delicate and unsettling. The gesture is restrained, almost ceremonial, transforming the act into a quiet reckoning rather than overt spectacle.

Her finely woven dress, rendered in pale tonalities, recalls the brittle luminosity of Arctic landscapes. The fabric’s intricacy contrasts with the inert weight of the bird, underscoring the tension between fragility and loss. Plastic — lightweight, synthetic, persistent — becomes an emblem of modern excess and environmental displacement.

As in much of de Meijer’s work, the figure functions as an archetype rather than an individual. She appears both witness and participant, holding the evidence of ecological decline while remaining composed within its unfolding reality. Arctic Indictment reflects on environmental precarity not through catastrophe, but through suspended stillness — inviting contemplation of responsibility, complicity, and the vanishing thresholds of natural balance.

THEMES

Environmental Fragility · Climate Change · Responsibility · Loss · Ecological Precarity

AVAILABILITY

Available for institutional exhibition and private acquisition. Currently located in New York City.