This project is a continuation of carbon study: walking in the dark . It features large-scale works on paper produced with regionally-collected carbon-based materials: found coal (from Elkview Operations, Crowsnest Highway, BC), found graphite (from Eagle Graphite Operations, Slocan Valley, BC) wildfire-derived charcoal (from the Lemon Creek wildfire site, BC), and wildfire-derived ash (Duhamel Creek wildfire site, BC). These drawings explore carbon as a pigment, an element, the basis of all living beings and life-processes through deep time, and the combusted substance which is central to climate change. An essay about this work, written by Caitlin Chaisson (and from which I gained the exhibition title), was recently published in Ecocene, an online environmental humanities journal. Here is a direct link.