Wednesday, April 2, 2025

Day 4602: Step-by-Step Postcard & Tlingit Tribal House.

"Split": junk paper collage.

Want music?

Click: Luther Vandross, A House Is Not a Home

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Using a 4x6' Strathmore Mixed Media postcard.

step 1

I like text but usually use it sideways or upside down.

And, I prefer a torn edge.

step 2

I save too much stuff. I have magazines and all kinds of papers.

step 3

I don't usually use metallics, but this one seemed to fit.

step 4

Sometimes edges align and it strengthens the composition.

step 5

It was a little too balanced, but the 5th piece made it work.

Done.

step 6

A small collage on the address side, because it's fun.

Ready to address, stamp and mail. I like this one. Maybe because it happened easily. They don't always, and sometimes I add too much. It's definitely an audition process.

WOW!

Collaboration Sees a Traditional Tlingit Tribal House

People have lived in the area around modern-day Glacier Bay National Park, along Alaska’s rugged southern coastline, for at least around 3,000 years. Nearby, in Groundhog Bay, evidence of human habitation extends back a mindboggling 9,000-or-more years.

In the mid-18th century, advancing glaciers forced ancestral Huna Tlingit people to abandon their homes. While they could visit certain areas occasionally to hunt and fish, the evolving conditions and ice prevented them from living there. And when the area was designated a national monument in 1925, it seemed possible the displacement would be permanent. Beautiful 18 minute video, below.

Following the dedication in 2016, additional Raven and Eagle Totems were raised in front of the house in 2017, and Yaa Naa Néx Kootéeyaa, the Healing Pole, was raised a little ways away, along the Tlingit Trail, in 2018. Plan your visit to Xunaa Shuká Hít and learn more about the Huna Tlingit Homeland on the park’s website.