Homer, Alaska – Homer artist xochiyollotl exhibits “Solastalgia” in February at Bunnell Street Arts Center. The exhibit opens Friday, February 6th from 5-7pm with an artist talk at 6pm, and closes on Wednesday, March 4th, 2026.

Artist Statement:

“I remember the first summer I noticed the trees shriveling, turning grey, eaten from the inside out. The air was hot and the rain never came. The swing tree and the joy it brought, lives now only in my mind.

I remember the first winter I noticed that the snow wasn’t falling as heavy as it used to. Roads without snowbanks, muddy ski trails, and trick-or-treaters without bulky layers under their costumes.

I remember the summer I pulled fish from the river, their bodies smaller than I’d grown to know. The time I saw white bellies in an eddy, where the water had pooled and the temperature rose.

I remember returning home from college. Seeing the retreat of glaciers, once clear blue and towering, now out of reach. Small things, white and dirty. 4 short years – a lifetime.

I’m not much older now.

The world will not be what it was.”