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Alaskan Family

Walking to my remote midtown office today, I passed by two incredibly beautiful modern buildings that are home to two of the 12 Alaska Native Regional corporations.

My thought process went something like this… my hands are so cold they hurt… woah look at the way the windows reflect the sky… oh, hello ASRC… it be neat to do portraits of Alaska’s First people in front of each of their corresponding Regional Corporation… I wonder who I should talk to about that?

Later at my Kaladi office in the JL Tower, I found a beautiful statue done by Iñupiaq artist Larry Ahvanaka. What drew me in was the the simplicity and the protruding placement of the piece directly infront of one of the three elevators. I don’t know if Larry himself decided on the placement, but I absolutely love the juxtaposition with how removed you feel when looking at the statue knowing you are in a building in midtown Anchorage.