Inspired by a two month residency with the Juneau Icefield Research Program spent traversing across glaciers in Alaska, "Footnotes (Juneau Icefield)" is an installation which includes field notes, field sketches, ceramic sculptures, ceramic knots, rope, ice and watercolor paintings on yupo paper, glacial silt, a nunatak stone, a metal ring, journal entries, geomorphology notes, ice core drilling notes, traced maps, cyanotype prints, cyanotype photographs, found maps, a cloud symbol diagram, watercolor and charcoal paintings on paper, poems (collected and original), and scientific filter paper, among other things. Mediums include photography, painting, sculpture, found objects, ceramics, and text from fields of glacier science, poetry, eco-feminism, and arctic exploration.
I wonder how personal vulnerability can act as a stand-in for collective vulnerability, and how to empathize with glaciers. I'm interested in how we process information, and where we might make connections between objects in our field of vision - like picking out constellations in the night sky.