Artist Tristan Duke will share updates on his ongoing Glacial Optics project -and his most recent expedition documenting the rapidly melting glaciers of the Sierra Nevada using his ice-lens camera. As the 2024-2025 Peter E Pool Fellow at the Nevada Museum of Art Center for Art and Environment Duke conducted aerial surveys in small aircraft documenting these alpine glaciers. At the Yosemite Museum and Archives Duke explored artifacts related to the earliest measurements of glacial movement in the United States conducted by John Muir in 1872, and the subsequent annual glacier surveys conducted in the park beginning in the 1930s. Duke will also share some highlights from his recent project at SITE Santa Fe developing giant photographs using a developer made out of Pinyon pine needles which were harvested from the SFI's Cowan campus.
Speaker
Tristan Duke