Once Was
How do we mourn for more-than-human deaths, when all that remains of loss is empty space? This work explores the hollow land left behind when glaciers melt, and the grief and guilt that coalesces in the bare earth revealed by their erasure. A series of death masks, made with the earth and water from these landscapes, draws from the past practice of casting the face of the newly dead, a memorial photograph pre photography. These speak to our entanglement with, and responsibility for, these sites of loss, and our willing blindness to the consequences we create; an elegy and prophecy both.