https://katieionecraney.com/words daily 0.75 2022-02-16 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1632079794315-06XJPJ824BWPW1HIIZWU/dryasinverted+copy.jpg Words https://katieionecraney.com/words/2022/2/16/jenni-house-residency-artist-talk monthly 0.5 2022-02-27 https://katieionecraney.com/words/2021/11/9/iceland-mobility-spaciality-virtuality monthly 0.5 2022-05-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/477f6969-1e70-4d75-80ae-362b5e9d7e0e/iceland_Alaska_puffin_beach.jpg Words - Iceland. Mobility, Spatiality, Virtuality. - Make it stand out two photographs of dead birds on beaches are merged together in the center to make the sand overlap. the left bird was found at Reynisfjara in Iceland; the bird on the right, found along the Bering Sea coast in Northwest Alaska. https://katieionecraney.com/words/2020/1/4/a-stitch-in-time monthly 0.5 2021-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1578177408349-5N75ZJKNC1N7RVOMBS11/A+Stitch+in+Time%2C+Arts+Territory+Exchange Words - A Stitch in Time Photo credit: Today Art Museum https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1578177671119-22HNX8S5HPZ7SL1HS7XL/Cryosphere%2C+Southeast+Alaska%2C+Baird+Glacier Words - A Stitch in Time “Where the edge of the Alaskan cryosphere has let go” https://katieionecraney.com/words/2020/1/4/you-are-a-tender-history-of-ice monthly 0.5 2021-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1578175452710-RFJMZYR01DQDQIOUUGWL/Screenshot+2020-01-04+13.03.36.png Words - You Are A Tender History Of Ice Published with images in Minding Nature: Spring 2019, Volume 12, Number 2, alongside If Your House Is on Fire: Kathleen Dean Moore on the Moral Urgency of Climate Change, by Mary DeMocker https://katieionecraney.com/words/2019/6/27/deciphering-change-in-the-alaskan-landscape monthly 0.5 2021-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1569266965331-QPQ9MAQULMH0DZOMAX17/Grief+Dares+Us%2C+2017. Words - Deciphering Change in the Alaskan Landscape Grief Dares Us © Katie Ione Craney 2017 https://katieionecraney.com/words/2017/9/5/observing-alaskas-changing-climate-through-the-eyes-of-an-artist monthly 0.5 2021-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1507570078954-RV7DZ89XVKA0P9D6K089/UNFCCC+Alaska%27s+Changing+Climate+Artist Words - Observing Alaska's Changing Climate Through the Eyes of an Artist https://katieionecraney.com/words/2017/5/22/we-hardly-know-our-own monthly 0.5 2021-04-01 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1495479704618-OX2XKHB9OQOZMNZADABS/image-asset.jpeg Words - We Hardly Know Our Own We Hardly Know Our Own - Photo transfer, ink, tissue, paper, and encaustic on hand-cut scrap metal Left Coast Annual Juror's Merit Award, Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA. 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https://katieionecraney.com/new-events/2019/denali monthly 0.5 2019-04-11 https://katieionecraney.com/new-events/denali monthly 0.5 2018-01-28 https://katieionecraney.com/new-events/2018/8/3/landfalls monthly 0.5 2019-10-02 https://katieionecraney.com/new-events/2018/iceland monthly 0.5 2018-09-30 https://katieionecraney.com/new-events/2018/2/2/downstream monthly 0.5 2018-02-08 https://katieionecraney.com/sound-sight daily 0.75 2023-02-09 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1633364813976-AEUSWVG6VWOFK1SFRAU7/a_fed_bear_is_a_dead_bear.jpeg Sound-Sight - a fed bear is a dead bear 3 x 8 x 1.5 inches Braille, brown bear hide, photograph through a glass magnifier, and encaustic on hand-cut scrap metal. Image Description: Three metal plates the size of playing cards tell a story of excessive brown bear death. The piece on the left has “a fed bear is a dead bear” written in English Grade 1 Braille on white paper and is attached to the metal with wax. The middle piece has a triangular piece of brown bear hide attached to the center of the plate, with long guard hairs flowing beyond the reflective metal plate. The third plate has a blurred photograph made through a hand-held magnifier of a winter forest scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1633364813976-AEUSWVG6VWOFK1SFRAU7/a_fed_bear_is_a_dead_bear.jpeg Sound-Sight - a fed bear is a dead bear 3 x 8 x 1.5 inches Braille, brown bear hide, photograph through a glass magnifier, and encaustic on hand-cut scrap metal. Image Description: Three metal plates the size of playing cards tell a story of excessive brown bear death. The piece on the left has “a fed bear is a dead bear” written in English Grade 1 Braille on white paper and is attached to the metal with wax. The middle piece has a triangular piece of brown bear hide attached to the center of the plate, with long guard hairs flowing beyond the reflective metal plate. The third plate has a blurred photograph made through a hand-held magnifier of a winter forest scene. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1637693421983-IDFFMZMFPIPNZO7VNQPI/Craney_Katie_BorderSurvey_MixedMedia_2020.jpg Sound-Sight - Border Survey https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1645062127231-Z10EAL9KW2XNXH8MEA21/07.A_Story_About_My_Great_Grantmother.jpg Sound-Sight - A Story About my Great-Grandmother 6 x 5 x 1.5 inches Silver paint from a climate refugee on vintage Braille paper, cottongrass seed head, and encaustic on reflective hand-cut scrap metal. Image Description: Two small art pieces speak with one another. On the left, a tattered, tan-colored paper with a language in Braille I haven't been able to translate. Tiny painted silver dots cover the top half of the cutout like an irruption of pine siskins through winter air. On the right, a sheet of scrap metal the same size as the Braille sheet, slightly larger than a playing card. On top of the metal is a tawny conttongrass seed head resembling fox fur, similar in color to the tan-colored paper. The seed head reflects itself and the viewer off the metal and is pointed in the direction of the silver painted dots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1645062590792-453KO4LKKV8TJZGNM7OE/05.Hearing_Distance.jpg.jpg Sound-Sight - Hearing Distance Photographs - Size varies Sound travels roughly 4 times faster through water than air. Suspended in the air above my hand are used hearing aid batteries from two dear friends, drawing connections between sound and positive feedback loops, ice reflectivity and extraction, air and water. I’ve been thinking about invisible disabilities in our shifting communication systems, how verbal and nonverbal nuance and context can easily be lost in online spaces and translated language. Translation itself distances the speaker to the listener or reader. Image Description: two photographs speak with each other through visible touch and sound: a black and white photograph of small icebergs in water is next to a pale-colored left hand in a white background, and about to catch or let go of hearing aid batteries suspended above the hand. Some batteries are blurred and blend with the skin tone of the hand. https://katieionecraney.com/contact daily 1.0 2025-10-11 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/821459bd-48b2-4dd5-80f6-c9497daa871c/ghost+berries.JPG Let's Talk On the left, I carry a handful of freshly picked wild Alaskan blueberries. On the right is ‘ghost berries,’ where I formed blueberries into white clay to rest gently inside a frilly silver mirror. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1640840939968-9PXJIN3CAG2Q9CH6O6G1/9.HearingDistance.png Let's Talk https://katieionecraney.com/accessibility daily 0.75 2025-10-11 https://katieionecraney.com/welcome daily 0.75 2021-09-29 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1633363235121-3UOALZANWXKJPQRPHKC1/reid%2B124.jpg Welcome https://katieionecraney.com/we-exist-together-for-a-moment daily 0.75 2023-03-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/6b68b90a-203c-4e4a-a86f-a12b13609b72/Gallery+View.jpeg we exist together Three angled white walls of a gallery hold multiple artworks and the exhibition title in black text that reads, “KATIE IONE CRANEY, for a moment, we exist together, for a moment”. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/71421b39-e5f8-420b-aa89-1dd50611e6b1/RecordingEquipment.JPG we exist together - Make it stand out Recording equipment rests on a partially snow-covered Kongsvegen Glacier. A solar panel connects to a dark box and is strapped to a wooden crate. A long blue tube coils in the snow next to a bright orange wand, marking the location. Photo: Coline Bouchayer https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838086315-2ONM5NNK4A53X8JWF28R/IMG_8823.jpeg we exist together A pedestal in a gallery holds exhibition material in Braille, magnifiers, small white cards with text and braille on them, and an “okay to touch” sign. The Exhibition statement and most labels are transcribed in Braille Grade 2. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838035965-UHZSHZNZNAYT6AD6M59H/IMG_8221.jpeg we exist together A gallery view with different angles of white walls and art works on display. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838082345-NF06RTHJCBJGDF30MACO/IMG_8821.jpeg we exist together - "Echoing" and "for a moment, we exist together, for a moment" A corner of two white walls meets. On the left, shiny, reflective boxes with black backing are mounted on the wall. On the right are small white cards mounted on the wall with small wooden card holders. “for a moment, we exist together, for a moment” cards were made in collaboration with Expedition Press. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838037618-J8N64MD18BG5Z6TQZT5R/IMG_8176.jpeg we exist together - "Corrective Lenses" and "sound-sight" A corner of a white-walled gallery with a long bench in the corner. On the walls are art pieces including a grouping titled "Corrective lenses" and a sound piece with headphones titled "sound-sight". In the corner on the bench is a shiny sequin pillow that is dark with bright pink spots. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838112635-ZO3LYYM6Y1U7H73ZTJVB/IMG_8327.jpeg we exist together - sound-sight Details of “sound-sight”, an art piece mounted on the wall that has a clipboard with pages of text definitions. Next to the clipboard is a label abou the art piece with an “okay to touch” and “audio description available” signs. Below the clipboard are a set of headphones. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838075520-89ECHNBNWDDPQJKKD0FY/IMG_8357+copy.jpeg we exist together - Glacier Breath A corner of the gallery has the art pieces “Glacier Breath” & “Pillow Talk”. The pillow rests on a long, integrated bench and is shiny champagne, white and blue in color. The art pieces have photographs, headphones, and Braille mounted on the wall. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838125745-2P799JZ95887HA9E8772/IMG_8406.jpeg we exist together Detail of Glacier Breath, with a sound description in text and in Braille mounted over pair of headphones. A label has details about the sound recording and research, as well as “okay to touch” and “audio description available” signs. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838066192-ID2LUQ42QQB3OB5IIMKZ/IMG_8291.jpeg we exist together - Handle with Care A cluster of small art pieces is mounted on a white wall. There are oval and rectangular pieces of art with photographs, mirrors, clay, and writing in Braille. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838019919-02OESKNV8AEKS34M58L0/ghost+berries.jpeg we exist together - ghost berries Detail of the piece “ghost berries,” with small white clay blueberries mounted inside a decorative oval frame. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838022929-AM9K5NLDMNGQACJF9TKK/here%2C+listening.jpeg we exist together - "here, listening" Detail of “here, listening,” with two oval mirrors strung with small chain to hang them up by. One mirror has “here, listening” written in Braille repeatedly and the other has a cut out photo transparency of a blue glacier face in the lower half of the mirror. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838017223-XT377UJHT8JOUGDUUI6B/glacier+is+a+verb.jpeg we exist together - "glacier is a verb" Detail of “glacier is a verb,” showing that same text in Braille over a pale blue glacier face photo transparency. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838025926-G3PCN0YNR26637QB5UWA/i+am+alive+-+repeat.jpeg we exist together - "i am alive" Detail of “i am alive,” written repeatedly down the center of a photo transparency that has two different images stacked. The top is a colorful tundra mosaic. Below, a stark blueish-white glacier face meets the sea. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838050408-VN6988X5CAB5HEBZD0C1/IMG_8276.jpeg we exist together - what did you see // how did you feel Small photographs in clear plastic cases that hang from a ceiling in a gallery. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838993774-68BX68E3SNWT8BNPBJXX/IMG_8258.jpeg we exist together Detail of “what did you see // how did you feel” https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838096815-AYPSJFQVUBT90FL2K4Z5/IMG_8780.jpeg we exist together - Cryogenics, for Jen Rose Smith Dyed with blueberry juice, a rectangular piece of fabric holds words written in white wax by Jen Rose Smith. Next to the fabric, a thin transparent sheet of paper holds the same words in braille. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838096671-TDOWZ5MFNNUB7BDOLNQP/IMG_8790.jpeg we exist together - I Become Less of Who I Am, for Billy-Ray Belcourt Dyed with blueberry juice, a rectangular piece of fabric holds words written in white wax by Billy-Ray Belcourt. Next to the fabric, a thin transparent sheet of paper holds the same words in braille. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838110488-YH60XW28G2TOH736M4DJ/IMG_8796.jpeg we exist together - Loops of Retreat, for JJJJJerome Ellis Dyed with blueberry juice, a rectangular piece of fabric holds words written in white wax by JJJJJerome Ellis. Next to the fabric, a thin transparent sheet of paper holds the same words in braille. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838123250-XCFMNDBWAE6BSHGFMT6V/IMG_8736.jpeg we exist together - detail of "What do we owe each other?" From a series of 15 small accordion booklets, a single booklets sits on a clear acrylic shelf. The Booklet holds imagery of water filled cracks on a glaciers snowy surface, next to a bright pink blueberry bush. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838132364-0QIJ2N1ISAZ6KIMGIDU5/IMG_8743.jpeg we exist together - detail of "What do we owe each other?" From a series of 15 small accordion booklets, a single booklets sits on a clear acrylic shelf. On three pages of the booklet is imagery of a hanging glacier surrounded recently exposed ridgelines. A red-pink blueberry bush is on the far right page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838133963-JW22D0WSSNJGRB8ESNJA/IMG_8746.jpeg we exist together - detail of "What do we owe each other?" From a series of 15 small accordion booklets, a single booklets sits on a clear acrylic shelf. On three pages of the booklet is imagery of exposed crevasses with faint pink text written over the top of the black and white glacier. A red-pink blueberry bush is on the far left page. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838050594-TO0LU6TCM7DMK46UFY8X/IMG_8230.jpeg we exist together - "What do we owe each other?" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675839011166-GQVDLTM289XHVXO66ZHX/4.blueberry+hands.jpg we exist together - Carry me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838309262-M5JGARALIOCAL7CUG5VM/IMG_8149.jpeg we exist together - Carry me https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838974473-T0P5Y6KZ2N9FB8WVY3UO/IMG_8725.jpeg we exist together - "i am alive" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838208429-2AZ548L7OFD6SF9KB4OL/IMG_8528.jpeg we exist together - detail of "i am alive" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838981956-00NBDPVU5OJLKOVOUEBD/IMG_8195.jpeg we exist together - detail of "i am alive" https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838321703-62XI0N5JDPBVWZ7KG4RS/IMG_8764.jpeg we exist together - Reference Library https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1675838063944-918LFX7WIQPLQ1UIUH3J/IMG_8347.jpeg we exist together - Glacier Puzzle https://katieionecraney.com/landfalls daily 0.75 2023-02-12 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1534476140029-H5LSKLRY3UJA1330K4KT/For_Joan_Kane.jpg Landfalls - "With it, we are joined, and continue" for Joan Naviyuk Kane words from her poem “Anchorage,” in The Cormorant Hunter’s Wife 8” x 10” Photographs, silver leaf, blueberry-dyed gauze, fish leather, and encaustic on scrap metal While at the University of Alaska-Fairbanks, I attended a reading by Joan. I hadn’t heard of her or her work. As she began to speak, the room fell silent; her presence and voice demanded all attention, her inflections and tone were haunting. I don’t remember which poems she read that day, but when I read “Anchorage,” I felt a similar presence. *This piece was a part of the 2020 Alaska Biennial exhibition at the Anchorage Museum. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1556840391030-DWS62XK5OX7O7NOVMW1Q/_DSC7204.jpeg Landfalls - "The relationship is falling apart" for Yereth Rosen words from her news story, “Big melt season in the Chukchi and Beaufort seas affect animals, people and the weather ahead,” published September 11, 2017 for Anchorage Daily News. 8” x 3” Photographs, silver leaf, and wax on scrap metal stovepipe A pattern started to show itself from news stories I’ve read, re-read, and take notes on; they were all written by the same person. I’ve found myself seeking out Yereth’s climate change coverage, as she seems to be the most consistent reporter addressing climate change throughout the state. You, too, can read and find her latest reporting at Arctic Today. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1556557688459-H48YTV20OO4KW2F7UC3R/_DSC7212.jpeg Landfalls - “We have nowhere else” for Laureli Ivanoff for her essay, “The Bearded Seal My Son May Never Hunt” 8” x 6” Photographs, gauze, fake gold dust, ink, tissue paper, and wax on scrap metal stovepipe “I had always thought the cold was necessary for the ways we relate to this earth.” When so much is at stake with how we navigate and understand the world around us, I was immediately drawn in by Laureli’s words of alarm through stories of her family traditions. Raising a child who may never have the chance to experience the culture he belongs to is heartbreaking and real and happening to mothers around the world. Will we learn fast enough to adapt? And what parts of our own identity and culture will we have to give up? How will cultures identify themselves when the very food and land that ties them to place disappears? “The Bearded Seal My Son May Never Hunt,” The New York Times, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1556840158392-7S05JMW50HCBWUADV79V/_DSC7146.jpeg Landfalls - "The land pulls [us] apart" for Joan Naviyuk Kane words inspired by her book Milk Black Carbon 8” x 3” Photographs, silver leaf, ink, gauze, and encaustic on scrap metal Over the course of making Landfalls, I kept circling back to Joan’s words, “…we are the both of us buried,” from her poem, “Glare in Blue,” in Milk Black Carbon, a book of guidance for grief in trying times. The title of this piece is a reflection on how difficult it is to speak of loss and displacement, and to witness a place change and disappear. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1556840218194-UGH7KACGKDYUMFEL42VV/For_Nancy.jpg Landfalls - "Acidification" for Nancy Lord for her book pH 8” x 3” Photographs, pencil, silver leaf, ink, and encaustic on scrap metal A few years ago, I researched and made a series of work based on phytoplankton and ocean acidification. When I heard about Nancy’s new novel, pH, I was very excited to see these issues come to life in such an accessible way. Her attention to detail and ability to break down oceanography and the affects of acidification came to life with a seriousness not overshadowed by her fictitious characters. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1534480041017-WTBNCVRJUJ22STRJXXH2/ForVelmaWallis.jpg Landfalls - "How will they survive now?" for Velma Wallis words from her book Two Old Women 8” x 3” Photographs, found burnt tea bag wrapper, and encaustic on scrap metal “The starkness of the primitive land seemed to demand it, as the people, to survive, were forced to imitate some of the ways of animals,” page 5. During my winter residency in Denali, I brought Two Old Women with me to reread while staying in the Savage Cabin. I read the book in one day; it was -20, the fire crackling, I had plenty of food and a government issued sub-zero sleeping bag. Everything felt so surreal and comfortable in contrast to the mental and physical struggle endured in this book. I kept wondering how Sa’ and Ch’idzigyaak would survive our new patterns and winter fluctuations. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1556840037208-EFLPS32BI9TOPQSSRRUT/For+Anna+Nelson+Harry.jpeg Landfalls - "When the glacier turned them into owls" for Anna Nelson Harry, one of the last fluent Eyak Speakers words for her story, “Two Sisters,” transcribed and editied by Michael Krause for In Honor of Eyak: The Art of Anna Nelson Harry 8” x 3” Fish leather, photograph, photo transfer, and wax on scrap metal “Yes, why is it I alone, just I alone have survived? I survive.” (Recorded on tape, Yakutat, June 15, 1972) Anna lived on the brink of watching her people, her culture, and her language disappear. She was an Eyak of the Copper River Delta. The urgency in Anna’s story, “Two Sisters,” transcribed in the footnotes by Michael Kraus who recorded Anna’s stories for over two decades, helps a reader learn how to read a story rather than only listen, giving the reader the tools to imagine how it may sound, and how Anna may have felt in sharing words of memory and loss. “Two Sisters,” as transcribed and edited by Michael Kraus for In Honor of Eyak: The Art of Anna Nelson Harry, 1982 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1534480223441-4Q8OF3578BJLAR968MK3/For_Vivian.jpg Landfalls - "The weight of us" for Vivian Faith Prescott words from her poem “Bihci – Rime (frost)” 8” x 3” Photographs, ink, silver leaf, blueberry-dyed silver leaf, and encaustic on scrap metal “I want to say to you—you are still here still beloved, still living, because my father eats with the edge of this knife.” Two years ago, I was a part of a conservation cruise on a small wooden boat based out of Glacier Bay. We were tasked with discussing and documenting how climate change, transboundary mining, and fisheries management are affecting residents along the coastal waters of the Inside Passage. Vivian learned of our itinerary and reached out to connect. We met outside of Chief Shakes Tribal House in Wrangell, where she gave us a private poetry reading and discussed changes in her local landscape. Though she didn’t read the poem this piece is dedicated to, it holds equal weight to the depth of her concerns and connections to family and place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1556556093089-28G84MUN3WOMFHTEB1SI/For+Eva+Saulitis.jpeg Landfalls - “How do I accept the reality of the word extinction?” for Eva Saulitis words from her book Into Great Silence: A Memoir of Discovery and Loss among Vanishing Orcas 8” x 3” Arctic cotton seed, photographs, and wax on scrap metal stove pipe Eva’s words have a way of stopping time; in the case of her lament for a vanishing orca pod, the reader wants nothing more than for the place, and its creatures to endure. Surviving the Exxon Valdez oil spill is a major feat all on its own, to survive cancer or climate change could be compared, but the statistics and predictions are foreign, a language we do not understand and are slowly learning. Eva spoke beautifully of the power of language, the necessity and vitality of it, whether through sound, body language, tone, inflections, and our silences. When someone or something becomes extinct, we lose their specific language, be it a sub-group of transient orcas in the Prince William Sound, a secluded native group on a wild and remote section of the Alaskan coast, or a person who used her voice to the best of her ability while she graced the planet with her presence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1534526236097-A8ZHE6EG6QWPN00SRX6M/_DSC5051.jpg Landfalls - "Before Water" for Eva Saulitis words inspired by her book Becoming Earth 8”x 6” Blueberry-dyed gauze, silver leaf, ink, tissue paper, photographs, and encaustic on scrap metal "People shaped holes, dogs, cats, an aunt, ... There's a big hole shaped like the Exxon Valdez oil spill, made up of thousands of holes the animals left when they died. The only way to be changed is to let another being (or place) completely in, to love with a wild, dangerous abandon, knowing the outline of the hole it will make is already being formed. It will hurt like hell later, but you let it come closer,” page 110. Becoming Earth brought comfort to the sorrows of paying attention and being human. I’m eternally grateful to know of Eva’s work, writing, and existence. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1534480505906-99YQZU2I7GJ60XDYQ77R/For_Vivian2.jpg Landfalls - "Ambient Noise" for Vivian Faith Prescott words from her poem “Indicators” 8” x 3” Photographs, ink, blueberry-dyed gauze, gauze, and encaustic on scrap metal “There is mention of ambient noise, how seals hide from killer whales among the pop and burst of a melting glacier. There are arguments concerning how high we live above the present sea, how our tidal days are spent with irregular fluctuations. Old folks comment how the winter sky has faded into a dull blue smoke.” “Indicators,” Shelia-Na-Gig, Spring 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1556556252764-BPE8HUB01LLZKIBUMHM7/_DSC7127.jpeg Landfalls - "Wetland" for Christine Byl for her essay, “Crane, Water, Change: A Migratory Essay,” for the Denali Climate Anthology 8” x 10” Photographs, blueberry-dyed gauze, found maps of Denali, silver leaf, and encaustic on scrap metal “I love the way language invites polarities onto a tongue. A word connects the eater and the eaten, a berry connects the Athabaskan and the European, a bird connects a berry to a mother tongue. Cranberry and crane’s call are woven in with boggy sphagnum, the wetland that supports them both, where one grows and the other feeds. These are my autumn treasures, a taste and a sound bound up in a stew of wetness and coming cold. The bustle of motion—fly, pick—and the promise of winter’s stillness to come.” I came across audio of Christine reading excerpts of her essay while researching how Denali National Park & Preserve is responding to climate change. Her words resonated with observation, attention, and patience for the subtleness of place. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1556840434447-4AF5CJ1QBVGO8N2FLU7T/_DSC7153.jpeg Landfalls - "Between land and ice" for Susie Silook words inspired by her Memoir as Drama “Ungipamsuuka: My Story” 8” x 3” Photographs, WWII military bandage, pencil, blueberry-dyed gauze, and encaustic on scrap metal “Susie: (Addressing the audience.) I am a woman. I have been a chaste woman. A wanton woman. A loving woman. A cruel woman. (Pause) I trace my ancestry to the earth. And her brown roots are the vessels of my heart. (Pause) I have staggered past you. Swaggered past you. Marched in beauty past you. And slid past you in the blood. (Pause) I am a woman. And like Maya, I still rise. (Pause) As a daughter I stand loved. (Pause) As a mother I stand proud.” While reading Susie’s story, I lost all sense time and felt transported into her worlds: the edge of St. Lawrence Island, the dark rooms and side streets that no one wants to speak of, see, or remember. The title of this piece is for spaces such as these, as well as a physical place for healing. “Ungipamsuuka: My Story,” Alaska Quarterly Review, Vol. 28, 2011 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1556840303559-WHYIGDU7VPVLC1090N6G/_DSC7233.jpeg Landfalls - "Unfurling winter bones" for Kersten Christianson words from her poem, “9:05 and the Sun,” in Something Yet to be Named 8” x 3” Photographs and encaustic on scrap metal From across the room, I felt the raw tenderness of grief tremble as Kersten began to speak during her Alderworks Residency reading. We never fully recover from the loss of a loved one, but we can rise and share and help others see light in darkness. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1534526224662-52GLNYK4SINM5BENGQB5/IMG_3033.jpg Landfalls - "All around me, the world heaves" for Krista Christensen words from her essay “World, Heaving” 8” x 3” Found images, silver leaf, blueberry-dyed gauze, and encaustic on scrap metal “See how they speckle the land, all these punctures, these wounds in the earth. Out of them spill valuables, costly treasures that she surrenders, and after, when the earth is spent, when the hole has been thoroughly routed, she is abandoned. Where the pounding and thrusting and drilling and excavating took place, only the empty shaft is left, a window into this unstable, shifting ground, a gap in land that thaws and refreezes violently, uprooting trees and buckling roadways and crumbling foundations—a land literally heaving.” I met Krista last winter in Denali. We were there for the residency program. Though our time in the park only overlapped briefly, I was immediately taken by Krista’s ability to move through a landscape with words. She’s not afraid to tell you how she’s really doing, how society at large is affecting her daily life, how hard she works to teach current events to her students. “World Heaving,” Booth, Butler University, 2018 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1560283831478-4UBDCO524WMT7IT84DLM/_DSC7242.jpeg Landfalls - "The glaciers waiting, planning capitulation" for Ernestine Saankalaxt' Hayes words from her book Blonde Indian 8” x 3” Photographs, pencil, silver leaf, tissue paper, and wax on scrap metal from a stovepipe and washing machine “The glacier is still. It bides its own time and keeps its own secrets. The ocean moves as it always has. On the other side of the water, mountains fall behind mountains and islands falls behind island.” Since first reading Blonde Indian, I’ve returned to it over and over again for guidance. Ernestine’s words require all our attention, as a way to honor her, her history, her way of life, and to move forward with these honorings—by stepping back to notice layers of our own histories that become secrets, buried in layers of sediment. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1560283618498-BLCKPJ7LQ3AT9ZXUEKZD/_DSC7255.jpeg Landfalls - "To be taken in" for Margaret E. Murie words from her activism 8” x 3” Photographs, gauze, and wax on scrap metal “Beauty is a resource in and of itself. Alaska must be allowed to be Alaska, that is her greatest economy. I hope the United States of America is not so rich that she can afford to let these wildernesses pass by—or so poor she cannot afford to keep them.” Mardy had an unfettered ability to humbly move through a landscape and then turn her experiences into advocacy. © Katie Ione Craney https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/55b29ad8e4b043b8267fdb64/1614811930652-KFR2LNDPZHJB0RR7LUIC/image.jpg Landfalls - Landfalls: Dedications to Alaska Women Writers & Storytellers TheT e is from an artist talk and author reading at the Sheldon Museum in Haines, Alaska, September 2019. From left to right, myself, Heather Lende, Ernestine Shaankalaxt Hayes, and Krista Christensen. 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