A massive Antarctic iceberg - creaking, groaning and all - has been brought to Auckland Museum as part of an art display.
Joseph Michael's Antarctica - while you were sleeping piece took four years to create, and sees the Everest iceberg projected and mapped onto the museum's outer walls at full scale.
But the display isn't just visual - dozens of speakers and several surround sound systems are bringing the work to life.
"From early on the thing is scale - how do I translate the sense of scale we're going to experience down in Antarctica?" Michael told Newshub.
"Originally it was more around getting a sense of the huge scale, then it became apparent that icebergs are quite similar in character and look to buildings, so I kind of matched the two together."
It's the largest projection mapping projection done in New Zealand and Michael sailed to Antarctica with a team in order to select and capture several icebergs, one of which is now being projected onto the museum.
At the Antarctic Peninsula, the continent's most northern point, in the middle of summer, the biggest struggle wasn't the cold - it was the isolation.
"If anything goes wrong, you can't get gear repaired, if someone gets injured - you're days from someone getting rescued or getting to hospital," he said.
"There was also a challenge in planning out our days in our trip, into capturing all the elements I knew we would need for this installation.
"At times I thought it would've been easier to tow an iceberg into Auckland Harbour than project one onto the museum."
As well as the actual photos and videos projected during the multi-sensory experience, audio recordings of the icebergs creaking and groaning play alongside music by composer Rhian Sheehan.
"That was one of our big discoveries of the trip was the sound recordings and how unique the environment is down there," Michael said.
"As a photographer I'm looking at images, but I had no idea that as different as each iceberg is photographically, they're also just as different with the sounds they produce - each sound is really diverse and unique."
Michael's hoping to take the display around the world, but it'll take a lot of work.
Each projection will be treated as its own art piece, with a new iceberg individually and painstakingly mapped.
Eventually he wants to combine them into one exhibition.
"The idea in that each of these installations eventually becomes an artwork."
"I want to do 10 of them, so then I can have a media arts exhibition where you can see all these different icebergs interplaying on the big screen, and you can see all these different icebergs around the world."
Sally Manuireva, Auckland Museum's director of public experience, says they're "delighted" to be bringing the display to the public.
"Not only is it a visually spectacular and free to the public, it celebrates nature and highlights issues of climate change."
The Auckland Museum display is free to view and is on until Sunday.
Newshub.
