People talk about it because they have to pay close attention to the land around them to survive. A volcano could erupt, a glacial lake could burst, a rogue wave could sweep you away. Noticing these similarities had a profound impact on me and heightened my appreciation for where I live in Alaska, making home all the more important to cherish, protect, and speak up for.
pace of growth, there aren’t enough resources to sustain our current worldwide population. What do we do about it? I wish I had the answers.
Questions like these are what keep me up at night. I try to remember that people are good, that we are capable of overcoming incredible obstacles when we work together and treat each other as equals. We have to remain hopeful; we have to The natural world as we know it is fight for what we know is right. getting smaller with each passing day. Do you think it’s too We are intrigued by your project late to turn back the clock? The titled “Surface/Layer”, Could you earth has recovered from tell us a bit more about how that cataclysmic events in the past, is came about? there still hope? Surface/Layer was a two-person Whoa. Those are weighted exhibition at the Juneau Arts and questions. I immediately think of Humanities Center, in Juneau one of my scientist friends who Alaska last December. The title was often says something to the likes of, inspired by ice and landscape, and “the earth will rebound, it’s humans our relationship to them. we have to worry about.” Landscape on the surface may It’s certainly hard to be hopeful seem okay, functioning as it should. for the things I care most deeply Once we start to investigate the for, like biodiversity, clean water, layers by taking a closer look we well-being, and equality. The see there are interacting systems current U.S. administration makes working to support what we see on it even harder to stay positive. the outside. I think that’s why I like science so much, though I’m not a It seems we’ve passed the tipping scientist at all, I appreciate the web point; we can’t keep up with the of intricacies, and discoveries 57