Geographic Reach is a body of work that appropriates imagery from a ski expedition to the Taku Glacier, which is a remote part of the Juneau Ice Field in Alaska. The project explores the relationship between humans and the natural environment, and the ways in which we interact with and impact the places we visit. This screenprint based work is focused on capturing the beauty and grandeur of the Taku Glacier, with its pristine snowfields, towering rock walls, and shimmering blue ice caves. However, they also reveal the marks that humans have left on the landscape, from the ski tracks and footprints on the snow.
Through this juxtaposition of natural beauty and human intervention, this work invites us to reflect on our own impact on the environment, and to consider how we can better steward the places we visit and inhabit. The project also speaks to the larger themes of exploration and adventure, and the ways in which these pursuits can both inspire and challenge us as individuals and as a society. Exploration plays a considerable part of knowing the world and a way of negotiating the landscape and spaces we do not often occupy. My studio practice has been embedded in such inquiry, the study of landscape through investigation, with an intent to illuminate such a vast formidable spaces.
Through this juxtaposition of natural beauty and human intervention, this work invites us to reflect on our own impact on the environment, and to consider how we can better steward the places we visit and inhabit. The project also speaks to the larger themes of exploration and adventure, and the ways in which these pursuits can both inspire and challenge us as individuals and as a society. Exploration plays a considerable part of knowing the world and a way of negotiating the landscape and spaces we do not often occupy. My studio practice has been embedded in such inquiry, the study of landscape through investigation, with an intent to illuminate such a vast formidable spaces.
