Special Thanks

I'd like to thank some great folks that have made my stay in Dawson City wonderful and Abundance: The Dawson City Trash Project possible.
In no particular order, THANK YOU:

The friendly and well-dressed KIAC staff, board, and committee,
Tara, for coordinating the first few weeks,
Karen, for airport pick ups and cleaning up after the party even though she should have gone home,
David F, for much-needed social exertions and movies,
Jesse, for a huge and fabulous personality and horrible jokes,
Amy, for coordinating the art camp,
Evelyn, for general sturdiness and friendliness,
Lance, for being there, for the textual ass, and for turning on/off/on/off/on/off the camera,
Mike Y, for the year of lead-up and organization,
David C, for good conversation, boat rides and the coat when I was cold,
Clair, for librarian-help,
Joanne, for introducing me to the museum archives,
Byrun, for good food, having a drill at the post office, and over-volunteering in general,
Jacob, for fabulous trash-talk and comradeship,
Francis, for letting me loot the dump,
Norm C, for the best dump-orientation ever,
Nicole, for asking good questions and taking good art,
Veronica, for the dump runs,
Debbie, for the dump runs,
Our neighbours, for the dump runs,
Aldo, for the dump run with 11 children,
Joan, for co-residing,
the staff at the ice cream store for cheerfully providing odd ice cream requests,
all of the tea-drinkers who provided me with 363 used tea bags,
Klondike Kate's staff for contributing to those tea bags,
all my friends around the world reading this blog and cheering me on,
and to everyone who took some art with them- the piece would have flopped without you!

P.S. And to the jerk who stole my (KIAC's) bike and crashed it: no art for you.

Abundance: The Dawson City Trash Project

The opening and the artist talks last night went fabulously. This morning people have already come in "shopping" and have taken pieces with them. Write-ups about the show will be in Gallery West Magazine and Pure Canada Magazine in addition to the catalouge essay being written by John K. Grande.

Macro Worlds

Taking photographs of minatures with a macro lens is not documentation- they are entirely different pieces. Here are some macro shots of teeny tiny bits. For a sense of scale, the grains on the snowy mountain photo are salt grains, and the three white concave circles in the tundra photo are the individual bubbles in styrofoam.

MIA

I start installing Friday, so I'm dropping off the map for a bit. two days ago I printed 336 teabags. Yesterday I finished up the 100s of wee houses, poured a lot of resin, and glued a lot of wee rocks on wee tailings. Today I have to finish a few hundred ravens, about 50 forest dioramas, the top of the dump diorama, photograph the ice pieces (and forests, dumps, and ravens...) and figure out what to do with my leftovers. This is where the schedule breaks down a bit.

The teabags look fantastic and three have already been taken. I love resin (I bought all of the resin in Dawson City. Now there is no more for me to love).

I might post before the weekend, but there more to do than time to do it in. So.

Fast Breaking News Flash

Today a spot will play on CBC Radio North about my work at the dump between 12 and 12:30 (Yukon Time, which is 3 hours behind NY).
Live stream: http://www.cbc.ca/north/

One day a reporter showed up at the dump in rubber boots to interview Jacob about his trash audit and I got into the mix as the local dump historian/artist.

(as an aside, I have heard about yet ANOTHER dump used in 1966 at Jackson's tailings. If any locals have the dates and waste management M.O. for this dump, please contact me!)