Kathryn  McElearney

Circle of the Sun investigates the work of three alumni of the Arctic Circle Residency, all of whom have ties to Maine and visual vocabularies related to photography. Artists Justin Levesque, Kathryn McElearney, and Shoshannah White create work that poses questions about our ongoing relationships with the land, emphasizing the critical point of Arctic ecosystems’ impact on our world in the era of climate change. 

Half a deer walked up to my house and rattled at the door.

When I didn't answer, the deer went away and I watched him turn into a whole deer. He walked away into trees where the wind was watery voices of people I did not know.

Strange watery voices were all I could hear. I could not see because I was my eyes, my eyes were crying so hard because I was so afraid.

In the voices they were talking about the deer. I went out of the house when the deer was gone. The lawn was soggy long grass that lay in thick strands like washed hair. I was surprised that the lake had climbed the hill to the cabin. The water, rising up the hill, was cloudy and bright yellow as if the sun were caught beneath it.

As I ranged up and down the shores of the swollen lake I saw a man's feet floating beneath the surface. The bottoms of his feet

Peter Reich, Book of Dreams

A human is made up of non-human components and is directly related to nonhumans. Lungs are evolved swim bladders. Yet, a human is not a fish.

Timothy Morton, Dark Ecology: For a logic of Future Coexistence