It smells like putting your tongue on a frozen flagpole. It is startling. It is brilliant.
, produced by oxygen molecules roughly 60 to 150 miles above Earth. : Higher altitude oxygen can produce auroras, while nitrogen molecules can create blue or purplish-red Dynamic Forms Nikole Miguel Polar Lights -
For those who have been following Miguel’s career from her early ethnographic documentaries in Svalbard to her ambient score for the award-winning short Permafrost , Polar Lights feels like a inevitable masterpiece. For the uninitiated, it is a collision of raw nature and ghostly technology. It smells like putting your tongue on a frozen flagpole
It reminds us that the lights at the top of the world are not a screensaver. They are a warning flashing in the most beautiful language we know. Nikole Miguel Polar Lights -
