On May 10, 2017
“I Hear You” – Copyright © 2017 by Priska Wettstein
© By John Arkelian
“I am among the giants. They loom below, immense, silent, and
insouciant – their unbowed crowns cloaked in the whitest of ermine, their enormous shoulders cast of rock primeval. I have come to the world of winter. Even time grows large here, measured in glacial epochs. Deep frozen rivers of ice below ebb and flow beyond the ken of the human eye: And there is nothing human here, for as far as the eye can see. Yet this place, this heart of the Yukon, whispers to me: ‘Something hidden: Go and find it. Something lost behind the Ranges.’ … Here is a place of transformation, a place of reawakening, a place of rediscovering freedom, a place where the spirit quickens, a place in which one can find what is hidden and reclaim what is lost….”
Our major travel essay on the Yukon, “The Yukon: Transforming the Human Spirit,” accompanied by the compellingly evocative photographic art of Dawson City’s Priska Wettstein, can be found at: https://artsforum.ca/travel