Sanctum by Jenna Dixon

There’s something about winter in the Canadian Rockies that calls to the heart of the adventurer. Snow-capped peaks tower over pristine and untouched landscapes, where rolling slopes and patterns play a beautiful contrast between light and shadow in the midday sun.

Deep within the heart of these landscapes, rest some of the most impressive glacier treasures. Massive sheets of ice rise up from frozen rivers and ice caves the size of a house sit waiting to be discovered. But the trail into these frozen lands is often unmarked, and challenging in distance as well as conditions, requiring one to brave the raw and relentless elements of nature not limited to -40 degree celsius temperatures.

This particular cave, nicknamed “Big Blue,” captivates the senses and leaves one breathless in awe-inspiring beauty. Stretching far beneath the glacier, the ceiling and surrounding walls constructed by shelves and sheets of ice open up like an amphitheater glowing richly with otherworldly hues of blue.

How strange it feels to know that this cave will one-day cease to exist as the rise of global temperatures continues to measure yearly record-breaking melts. As a result, the journey to this cave becomes longer and more difficult each year. Deep crevasses and snow bridges line the entranceway in a labyrinth, requiring a thoughtful and trained approach. But the effort is rewarded simply by an experience of a lifetime and the opportunity to document far more than an adventure, but a fleeting moment in time itself.

An image captured in March 2022.

This NFT is part of the Frozen Planet collection by Concurrence Collective - a project born out of community. An international team of photographers coming together with a shared passion for capturing the natural beauty of the world. Through this collection, our journeys & expeditions will transport you to the coldest regions of this majestic home of ours, whether they are permanently frozen, or have undergone the transition into winter.

Icefields Parkway, Banff National Park, Alberta, Canada

Concurrence Collective is a project born out of community. We have come together with a shared passion for capturing the natural beauty of the world. Through the Frozen Planet collection, our journeys & expeditions will transport you to the coldest regions of this majestic home of ours, whether they are permanently frozen, or have undergone the transition into winter.

As a cyber gallery in the metaverse, Concurrence is the centre point for the initial display of Frozen Planet, and by showing this cohesive and powerful body of work in its entirety, our aim is to inspire collectors to take custody of our art. The collection will be available via GACHA to randomise the mint.

Frozen Planet contains work from the following photographers: Armand Sarlangue
Dani Guindo
Dennis Schmelz
Elliot Simpson
Jabi Sanz
Jenna Dixon
Joffrey Briaud
Johnathan Conlon
Jonas Furstone
Justin Wirtalla
Kai Yhun
Kurt Jurgen
Meesh
Norris Niman
Rach Stewart
Rachel Wood
Ricardo Braz
Roman Königshofer
Ron Timehin
Sam Oetiker
Sara Boychuk
Sarah Lyndsay
Suelen Tieko
Vincent Schnabl

As an international collective, we are excited to be able to bring together images from Greenland, Finland, Russia, Scotland, Antarctica, Switzerland, France, Iceland, Germany, Canada, New Zealand, and Patagonia.

Landscape photographers go to great lengths to reach these magnificent locations in extreme, and sometimes treacherous conditions to capture their grandeur & beauty, and highlighting these efforts was also part of the concept behind the collective.

Finally, in the next few generations, it is expected that some of these regions will cease to exist as they do today, with the cycles of glacial expansion and contraction seemingly disrupted, and greater levels of retreat occurring in a number of areas. If these fragile regions do become unrecognisable from their current state, these images will form an important documentation of their history.