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love stories

part of the exhibition "In a time of change" with Bonanza Creek LTERShow notes: https://itoc.alaska.edu/seed-songs-and-love-stories/

2025 Summer Alaska State Museum in Juneau, AK
2025 January - March Valdez Museum & Historical Archive in Valdez, AK
2024 September - October Copper River Gallery in Cordova, AK
2023 June - September Pratt Museum in Homer, AK
2022 September at the Bear Gallery in Fairbanks, AK

Shoots, leaves, flowers, and stems of fireweed (Chamaenerion angustifolium) enliven the borders and disturbed floors of the boreal forest between snow melt and snow fall.
Recipes lend locations of ingredients and instructions to follow. When done so carefully, we are graced with a nourishing gift. I call such intimate passages of where, when, and how to share such gifts of the boreal forest “love stories”.
Individuals across the northern hemisphere have consumed, constructed and healed with this perennial plant. The peoples of interior Alaska call the rhizomatous, floral willowherb gȯh. You are my guest to take a card from one of the listed galleries or drop me a line at geoartak@gmail.com, and plant a new love story.

Many shared the love stories, adorning the cards, of how we can see, hear, smell, taste, and feel fireweed. Big thanks to Katie Craney, Teresa Hollingsworth, Katie Spellman, Keith Thompson, Megan Perra, Elizabeth Alexander, Marian Eiben, Stefanie Ickert-Bond, Jan Dawe, Mary Beth Leigh, and you.

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