Walking Across a Frozen Sea
There is a theory that during the last ice age, aboriginal peoples of the Americas made their way from Siberia into the New World across the Bering Land Bridge in Alaska. I was curious about this and decided I would like to walk across the frozen sea back towards Russia in a sort of reverse commute of my ancestors.
We live in a time when we humans consider ourselves to be “intelligent”.
We have seen the marvels of science and technology and yet somehow with all of our intelligence and advancements in technology we have triggered the sixth mass extinction of species, we see our oceans becoming acidic, and our weather more damaging, more deadly. We watch in silence as our Poles continue to melt and our sea levels rise.
As a mother, as an artist, and as a citizen of this planet, I write this story to accompany the images I made in both the Arctic and Antarctic — in a series I call Melting Away.
AN UNEXPECTED JOURNEY
When I was twenty-nine years old, I was doing traditional beadwork almost ten hours a day, six days a week. I was making a good name for myself, and I had a steady stream of orders from galleries and individuals across the country.
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