The change in size of this edition has a remarkable effect; though most of us imagine the Arctic as vast and panoramic, now here it is in our very hands: small, portable, vernacular. And, like the Kalaallisutlanguage itself, it is vulnerable, beautiful, and agglomerative — as a single word can mean a whole sentence, a single image encompasses the color and form of one of the Earth’s most remote yet lovely landscapes. The cards come wrapped in a pale blue paper liner with a white band — one could conceivably send them as postcards, though here at the ABR, we plan to keep them together, picking them up at times to let them cascade from hand to hand, or perhaps leaning them on a shelf, with a different card facing outwards each day.
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