SPARK

Anchorage Museum, Alaska
2021 - ongoing

Spark is a long-term project exploring how wildfires are becoming more frequent and intense and impacting our shared landscapes and lives in meaningful ways. Working with the Anchorage museum in Alaska, the project began with a sculpture that became part of the museum’s permanent collection (see project page for Burn). The Spark project will continue with a series of public conversations questioning what we might learn from forest fire ecology that can be applied to designs for shelter and refuge. Wildfires in the circumpolar north will hold particular focus. Fires that lead to underground root burns spanning winters to reemerge in the spring were the original inspiration for the project. We will place test sculptures in the path of wildfires in the summer of 2023.