paintings, writing, and explorations in sound
The first artwork I "met" by Charles Stankievech, a Montreal/Dawson City multimedia artist, was his delicate, subtle work Whispers (for WB) at the Parisian Laundry (Montreal) in 2005. For this piece, Stankievech set a series of speakers attached to long, rambling wires along the floor of a skinny concrete hallway. The speakers exuded a wash… Continue reading charles stankievech: DEW project
Just 2 days ago we were walking around in t-shirts, wondering if it was going to get cold before the end of September. This morning, the answer: Now we're talking. Still seeing the Yukon River flow by (freeze-up won't happen til early November, typically). And the puddles are still releasing their thermal-protection layers of ice… Continue reading frozen puddles: so it begins
In 1900, Dawson City's summer berry bounty - and the lack of ice to prolong its freshness - prompted a brief discussion about the merits of an ice plant all the way across the continent in the pages of the New York Times. Though that summer's news was about a month old when this article… Continue reading Dawson, 1900: lack of summer ice
A few thoughts about a recent sculpture I made and installed for Dawson City's Riverside Arts Festival. “To your health!” was a toast to anyone who’s found their heart too frozen to speak. A public toast, and a poetic service. Stain the wood. Stain the air with the scent of wine. Walk up closer and… Continue reading meg walker: to your health
For the final celebration of last week's International Freezer Appreciation Day: Rachel Wiegers, Dawson's belle, tells the story of buying, emptying, and moving a freezer in preparation for the winter. Wearing fur-lined high heels from the thrift store in Mayo, just because that's Rachel-style. Much thanks to James Wood for helping lift, and for driving… Continue reading IFAD final: Rachel’s Yukon freezer expertise
red pony alert a semi-fiction by yours truly Forget that I’ve been sneezing and blowing my nose all day. I’m going out for a run so I can sleep properly. If you’re not looking for gold, the roads around Dawson don’t lead to many dramas. I jog out of town at least twice a week,… Continue reading red pony alert
This weekend, I was surprised to discover that the Dawson City Music Festival was virtually ice-free! My guess as to why: the weather wasn't too hot; all booze was either beer in cans or wine poured out for you (no cocktails!) which meant no glasses with ice cubes; and the small site doesn't allow for… Continue reading ice-free music fest
puffy, light softness and air-filled interior pores, that's what ice envies shot by me near Whitehorse, Dec 08
From a road trip Dec 08: bonfires along the Klondike Highway between Dawson City and Whitehorse prove that deep-cold temperatures still can't kill a fire when the fire has enough fuel. The ice on the car windows before we left chilled my fingers and I wasn't expecting to see massive flames anywhere along the frozen… Continue reading fire beats ice + snow
ice among us. continuous complex sounds. a minute's worth of found ice music coming from a piece of jumble ice on the yukon river shore near dawson city, yukon, late may 2009.
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