08/12/2025
Jessica Hays continuing to takeover today, sharing more about The Sun Sets Midafternoon. Writing became central to this work immediately. I used writing as a way to process and understand my experience of these fires and the reactions I was having. Ultimately, this led me to the concept of Solastalgia, which is emotional and existential distress caused by negative environmental change.
Inset into this book are chapters of text that provide insight into the experience of living through a wildfire, and the process of making this work. These chapters are born out of my own journal, chronicling life with fire and climate change affecting the here and now if our lives.
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