Artist In Residence 2023
Alaska Botanical Garden’s Artist In Residence presents – A writer with a love of storytelling, Haghighi explores the topics of living and grieving. For her, there is no separation. She is passionate about recognizing compelling moments that inspire and provoke what living life is all about.
“As humans, we sometimes see our world and the landscapes that surround us as external. We easily dismiss their similarities to our inner landscapes, especially when we experience grief and loss,” Haghighi writes. The residency’s dedicated time and space allowed the author to learn, observe, interact with, and write in the boreal forest. She created one of a series of short books highlighting Alaska’s environments. The book, The Inner Landscapes of Grief, presents an interplay between writing and photographs.
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