This past fall I went back to Alaska for the first time in
many years to start a new phase of my ongoing project "Exercises for
moving in between". Exploring my relationship to change and place took me
to my hometown of Fairbanks, Alaska. Above is a still from a video I made there - a
place I returned to day after day, repeating different exercises to see where
they would lead.
The state is often romanticized (by artists especially) as
the ‘last frontier’, a symbol of natural beauty and extremes. While beautiful,
to me the grandeur of this wilderness reminds me instead of mundane moments in adolescence - smoking in birch forests, biking through muddy roads to get to a
friend’s house to do nothing, dreaming of ‘seeing the world’ as I scanned the wide
open forested valleys through the cracked frozen windshield of a pickup truck.
Revisiting these places as an adult, I set up the tightrope (from my previous "exercises" in the project) as a starting point
for maneuvering through time, both through the physical act of exerting myself and through the
corresponding color photographs and video. This image is one of the places I ended up....
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