Photo credit: Today Art Museum
Through Arts Territory Exchange, two photographs are included in “A Stitch in Time” exhibition at the Today Art Museum in Beijing, China. Curated by the art critic Huang Du & art historian Jonathan Harris, in partnership with Gurdun Filipska of Arts Territory Exchange.
Craney says: "Alaska has a new language--this summer's excessive heat, drought, fire, and melt has forced us to redefine the accumulation zone as the ablation zone, or melt zone. These fragments of the physical landscape now only exist in our memory; what was has washed to the sea. Living with this drastic landscape change is heartbreaking, real, and happening fast. We all need to do our part to save the places and people that make up our homes…In her final book Becoming Earth, Eva Saulitis wrote, “It takes many ways of knowing to overcome the brain’s many refusals.” My work circles around physicality of materials and endless questioning: What brings us together when the world falls apart around us? How do we keep up with the onslaught of tragedy, extinction, and grievance? Where do we find community when the ground underneath us falls away, taking with it our cultures, food, and stories? Grief requires us to know the time we’re in, therefore, grief ends up not being about hope, rather humility and dignity.’’
“Where the edge of the Alaskan cryosphere has let go”