My primary outlet for photography is my Flickr page, as well as this Flickr page devoted entirely to Alaska and this Flickr page devoted entirely to Iceland.
I maintain an Instagram page, but it is a mix of everyday phone photos, updates, and photography.
Several of my photos from Greenland were published in Arctic Today alongside an article I wrote.
Other Highlights
Cairns: A Photo-Essay from Four Countries (July 2022)
Two Stories of Contemporary Art in Greenland (June 2022)
I maintain an Instagram page, but it is a mix of everyday phone photos, updates, and photography.
Several of my photos from Greenland were published in Arctic Today alongside an article I wrote.
Other Highlights
Cairns: A Photo-Essay from Four Countries (July 2022)
Two Stories of Contemporary Art in Greenland (June 2022)
Projects
Sensing Ice (2022)
This was a photography-oriented multi-media project, which resulted in an exhibit that I conceived and designed and implemented in collaboration with scientists. It was on display at the University of Colorado-Boulder's Earth Science library for 1.5 years (2022-2023). Read about it here and here. It was also featured on the local Denver TV news, Boulder Weekly, and local Boulder radio news.
It was an immersive multimedia exhibit built mostly around my photography from Greenland and Nepal, but also videos, science, glacial sounds, and more. It included a few wonderful key contributions from several people such as Icelandic polymath Þorvarður Árnason and Alaskan composer Matthew Burtner.
I also put together a panel discussion focused on art and science in the Arctic, featuring a variety of experts who reflected on the personal and professional significance of their experiences in the Arctic, thereby offering a critical inquiry into the nature of scientific practices. I was a member of this panel, which took place at the exhibit site.
This was a photography-oriented multi-media project, which resulted in an exhibit that I conceived and designed and implemented in collaboration with scientists. It was on display at the University of Colorado-Boulder's Earth Science library for 1.5 years (2022-2023). Read about it here and here. It was also featured on the local Denver TV news, Boulder Weekly, and local Boulder radio news.
It was an immersive multimedia exhibit built mostly around my photography from Greenland and Nepal, but also videos, science, glacial sounds, and more. It included a few wonderful key contributions from several people such as Icelandic polymath Þorvarður Árnason and Alaskan composer Matthew Burtner.
I also put together a panel discussion focused on art and science in the Arctic, featuring a variety of experts who reflected on the personal and professional significance of their experiences in the Arctic, thereby offering a critical inquiry into the nature of scientific practices. I was a member of this panel, which took place at the exhibit site.
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Raven's Light (2018)
A photographic and writing art piece for CU exhibit
Displayed with Mapping Home/Collecting Truths: Works by Indigenous and International Artists as part of Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present, Future).
The native people of Arctic Alaska live in one of the earth’s most remote locations yet are centrally bound in complex global dynamics. The monetary economy of Alaska’s North Slope is almost entirely based on fossil fuel extraction, while the effects of climate change caused by these very industries are felt disproportionately here: it is the fastest warming part of the earth.
This photographic collage is based on many months spent in Arctic Alaska, over the course of several years. It explores the tensions between the traditional subsistence-based cultures and economies of the native peoples of Arctic Alaska and the globalized consumer culture that exists alongside these traditions, yet in certain respects, including through localized industrial impacts and climate change, threatens to undermine them.
This exemplifies the conundrum that we all find ourselves in.
See also Arctic Village Life
A photographic and writing art piece for CU exhibit
Displayed with Mapping Home/Collecting Truths: Works by Indigenous and International Artists as part of Documenting Change: Our Climate (Past, Present, Future).
The native people of Arctic Alaska live in one of the earth’s most remote locations yet are centrally bound in complex global dynamics. The monetary economy of Alaska’s North Slope is almost entirely based on fossil fuel extraction, while the effects of climate change caused by these very industries are felt disproportionately here: it is the fastest warming part of the earth.
This photographic collage is based on many months spent in Arctic Alaska, over the course of several years. It explores the tensions between the traditional subsistence-based cultures and economies of the native peoples of Arctic Alaska and the globalized consumer culture that exists alongside these traditions, yet in certain respects, including through localized industrial impacts and climate change, threatens to undermine them.
This exemplifies the conundrum that we all find ourselves in.
See also Arctic Village Life
Philosophical Animations from my Undergraduate Days
"All Sisyphus' silent joy is contained therein. His fate belongs to him. His rock is a thing Likewise, the absurd man, when he contemplates his torment, silences all the idols. In the universe suddenly restored to its silence, the myriad wondering little voices of the earth rise up. Unconscious, secret calls, invitations from all the faces, they are the necessary reverse and price of victory. There is no sun without shadow, and it is essential to know the night. The absurd man says yes and his efforts will henceforth be unceasing. If there is a personal fate, there is no higher destiny, or at least there is, but one which he concludes is inevitable and despicable. For the rest, he knows himself to be the master of his days. At that subtle moment when man glances backward over his life, Sisyphus returning toward his rock, in that slight pivoting he contemplates that series of unrelated actions which become his fate, created by him, combined under his memory's eye and soon sealed by his death. Thus, convinced of the wholly human origin of all that is human, a blind man eager to see who knows that the night has no end, he is still on the go. The rock is still rolling.
I leave Sisyphus at the foot of the mountain! One always finds one's burden again. But Sisyphus teaches the higher fidelity that negates the gods and raises rocks. He too concludes that all is well. This universe henceforth without a master seems to him neither sterile nor futile. Each atom of that stone, each mineral flake of that night filled mountain, in itself forms a world. The struggle itself toward the heights is enough to fill a man's heart. One must imagine Sisyphus happy."
---Albert Camus
In Theaetetus (174 A) Plato had Socrates relate a story that Thales was so intent upon watching the stars that he failed to watch where he was walking, and fell into a well. The story is also related by Hippolytus (Diels, Dox. 555), and by Diogenes Laertius (D.L. II.4-5). Irony and jest abound in Plato’s writing and he loved to make fun of the pre-Socratics, but he is not likely to have invented the episode, especially as he had Socrates relate the event. Aristotle wrote that viewing the heavens through a tube ‘enables one to see further’ (Gen. An. 780 b19-21), and Pliny (HN, II.XI) wrote that: ‘The sun’s radiance makes the fixed stars invisible in daytime, although they are shining as much as in the night, which becomes manifest at a solar eclipse and also when the star is reflected in a very deep well’. Thales was renowned and admired for his astronomical studies, and he was credited with the ‘discovery’ of Ursa Minor (D.L. I.23). If Thales had heard that stars could be viewed to greater advantage from wells, either during day or night, he would surely have made an opportunity to test the theory, and to take advantage of a method that could assist him in his observations. The possibility that the story was based on fact should not be overlooked. Plato had information which associated Thales with stars, a well, and an accident. Whether Thales fell into a well, or tripped when he was getting in or out of a well, the story grew up around a mishap.
From: https://iep.utm.edu/thales/