I spent a month and a half in remote Alaska while making art at the Chulitna Lodge Artist Residency in Lake Clark National Forest, a 4+ million acre tract of wilderness. The residency is located 180 miles from the nearest road and functions completely off grid.
I discovered there a place of obvious dualities (like Curaçao) where the majestic environment is permeated with the presence of oil, from offshore rigs that fleck the landscape to the myriad of fuel types needed to power the residency and the tools I used, to the resources required to extract any sculpture I made on site. With this tension as context, I produced a project about shipping, crates, 2014.
This short video captures the making of the work as well as the context of the residency.