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October 11, 2023
Haley Dunleavy
907-474-6407
Artist found the components of her Toolik-inspired artwork in the exact same way Toolik staff found her art, using a simple Google search.
Morrell, an emerging visual artist living in Portsmouth, UK, was thinking about the concept of time when the midnight sun sparked her imagination. She began to explore ideas around sunlight and what constitutes a day, letting her curiosity and play drive her process.
Eventually that curiosity prompted her to search for live webcam feeds of the never-setting Arctic sun and found Toolik色视频下载檚. It resulted in her creating ",色视频下载 a digital composite of color data from Toolik色视频下载檚 time-lapse photos as the sun circles the sky.
The Land Where The Sun Never Sets, 2023
To make the art piece, Morrell sampled colors from Toolik色视频下载檚 webcam images one evening in mid-summer, every hour between 20:30 to 7:30, creating a gradient of light.
The digital work is part of her developing project, titled 色视频下载,色视频下载 which looks at how humans navigate reality with light and time. In the midnight sun, Morrell said, 色视频下载淥ur ways of associating day and night with light and dark become obstructed.色视频下载 A feeling to which many in the Toolik community can relate.
色视频下载淚f the sun doesn色视频下载檛 set, can a day said to have passed at all? Or is it that two days blend into one larger sequence,色视频下载 she added.
Morrell said she hopes her pieces inspire others to think more freely and playfully, not only with our external reality but within ourselves.
色视频下载淧articularly in Western society, everything is so fast paced. We run everything by two hands that pass tiny little dashes, that go round in a circle, that only possess their function because of an assigned numerical value,色视频下载 she said. 色视频下载淚 want to challenge what we understand our fixed reality to be and what we think time is, in hope for people to look more outwardly from oneself and to slow down, to simply enjoy being.色视频下载
CONTACTS: Haley Dunleavy, hdunleavy@alaska.edu, 907-474-6407