A sign installed in the largest wildfire burn I’ve ever seen, along the BC/Yukon border. Borrowing the aesthetics of BC Recreation Site signs, once again pointing to the overlaps of outdoor recreation, resource extraction, and the consequennces of the climate crisis. Most recreation sites in BC exist along previous built logging and mining roads.
“Forced into a great a difficult transformation” was a line I heard in a lecture on Buddhist philosophy I was listening to on my drive up to Dawson City. But it became another mantra I thought about while living in a place that’s been utterly transformed by resource extraction over the past century, and as I thought about the burnt landscapes I drove through.
Thank you to the British Columbia Arts Council for the financial support for this project and my residency at the Klondike Institute for Arts + Culture.