Tag «#Youpa Stein Visual Arts»

Walking with My Camera: A Communion of Subjects

  A small reflection about my activist self and my artist self. Currently part of my time is absorbed by my work to decrease the amount of micro and nano plastics and their associated chemicals (that migrate into our bodies and the environment from many thousands of sources, including artificial turf (https://missoulacurrent.com/plastic-playing-field/). (Note: 4200 of …

Artist in Residence

In the summer of 2023 through the Alaska Voices of the Wilderness (VOTW) program, I was an artist residence in the Tracy Arm-Fords Terror Wilderness (TAFT) in Alaska. It was an opportunity to experience the area in hands-on and meaningful ways and then to share the responses with the public. The residency spurred my interest …

Walking with My Phone Camera: Nature Nurtures

It has been a couple years since I have written what I call my field notes (“blog” has always felt like a strange word to me:). Today I find myself here at my computer to write a few words to ground myself in the practice of noticing and sharing as actions of remembering that even …

Walking with My Camera: Light and Water

The day–gray with rain instead of snow led me to find some photographs from walk I took last the fall. These images are from a small water way named Big Knife Creek located on Confederated Salish & Kootenai Tribes of the Flathead Reservation tribal forest land. I take many hundreds of photographs of water and …

Walking with My Camera: Emerging Spring

Leaves are starting to unfurl. The new shapes of spring catch my eye. The edges of the road where I walk glowed with new growth in the evening light a couple nights ago. It is warm enough to spend more time with my camera at the edges of Big Knife Creek to catch light on …

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