The Lay of the Land: Glacial Biocenosis: Glacier Peak grid 1950

acrylic mixed media and digital media on paper , 152 (H) x 45 (W) cm, 2018

Image is one scroll from an installation of 8 scroll maps, 12 images of flora and fauna and quotation essay, a contemplation on the difficulties in our present peril of Skagit instability. Climate changes in the Skagit River ecosystem result from erosion; fluctuation in meltwater and biocenosis historically alter glaciers.

My theme, Land Use: An Alchemical Treatise, explores connections between belief systems about society and resource exploitation. The Western landscape tradition’s relentless desire for control distances viewers from the outdoors with timeless illusion. To understand wilderness, North Cascades Park archeologist Bob Mierendorf advises openness to the existence of many past cultural landscapes. Romanticism opposes notions of the pristine with human activity in ecosystems. Natural processes subvert a static view of landscape.
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Alice Dubiel has exhibited internationally and nationally for over 40 years, featured solo installations of paintings, conceptual work about ecology and the politics of representation. In fall 2006, she was artist in residence at North Cascades National Park; in 2007 and 2014 she received funds from 4Culture in King County, WA. Since 2011 Dubiel has annually lectured and exhibited in Gwangju, Gyeongju and Daegu, Korea. Working and living with her family in Seattle, she volunteers as an amateur naturalist. Born in Berkeley, CA, degrees from UC Santa Cruz and San Jose State University, she taught for 20 years.