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An Ending
Today I dropped off my last artist at the airport. Next Saturday, 30 November, my contract as director of the Spitsbergen Artists Center and Residency will end. I didn’t come to Svalbard intending to run artists studios, a craft center, exhibition spaces, and an artists residency. That was not the plan. This came from a […]
The Last Year
We are well into the year and I think it is time to say that this will be my last year on Svalbard. As the great American philosopher, Kenny Rogers, once said, “You have to know when to hold ’em, know when to fold ’em, and know when to walk away.” It is my time […]
A Farewell to Darkness
In the years that I have lived on Svalbard I have often described the passage of the year as being more like one long day than a year with seasons. One with weeks of sunrise and sunset, and months of night and day. Of course this is not truly accurate either. In fact, I’m not […]
The Lure of Abandoned Places
It sometimes seems that photos of abandoned places litter the internet, or at least FB. Abandoned hotels, factories, homes. Ghost towns, theaters, mining camps. If humans lived there, then left, we want to photograph it. We are more interested in these momento mori than we were in their time as an actively in-use building. I […]