In July 1923, President Warren G. Harding visited Alaska to drive in the “Golden Spike” opening the new railroad linking Seward with Fairbanks. It had taken eight eight years and the influence of three U.S. presidents, but America’s northernmost railroad was open. It has remained a critical transportation link, a working train as well as a touring train wending through some of the most fabulous country in the nation. Resplendent in blue and gold, the engines and cars of the Alaska Railroad remain as unique as the track that travels north through the wilderness to a dead end near Fairbanks, and south to a dead end at the seaport of Seward. But, oh, what beauty lies between.
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Kaylene Johnson-Sullivan’s work is inspired by the scale of Alaska’s landscape and the unique personalities that thrive there. She says it is a place of dichotomies — expansive light in summer, deep dark in winter; where vast landscapes fill one’s view while tiny tundra flowers bloom at your feet. Alaska, she says, is a place where an artist can feel rooted in what is real and true and at the same time feel free to create in expansive and challenging ways.
Kaylene has been known to: completely forget about time when hanging around horses.
Things she likes: reading to her husband before bedtime; hiking; horseback riding; cross-country skiing; the scents of rain, freshly cut grass, and saddles.
She’ll never get caught: Jumping out of an airplane. Deep sea diving. Forget it.
Favorite pop culture expression and where it’s from: Pop Culture? Seriously, who are the Kardashians?
Alaskans she most admires: Dick Griffith, Mardy Murrie, Ray Bane (stay tuned)
Favorite Alaska places: Brooks Range, Chugach Mountains, my backyard
COMING SOON.
