Terminus: Anderson Glacier by Khuyen Lam

 
a decorative line divider with curled ends and a snowflake at the center.
 
A watercolor painting of a large mountain lake, reflecting snowy peaks.
The Funeral
Watercolor

The Funeral is a commemorative painting of the now-extinct Anderson Glacier. I chose the emphasize the glacier melt that advance towards the viewer, forewarning of the future that is to come. And in the case of Anderson Glacier, it is already here.” -Khuyen Lam
 
a decorative line divider with curled ends and a snowflake at the center.
 

Meet the artist: Khuyen Lam

Khuyen Lam is a multidisciplinary artist who grew up on the doorstep of Yosemite National Park. During the day, she is a designer, and in the evenings, she juggles visual arts, and videogame development. She fell in love with the American outdoors from her many adventures in the Sierra Nevada mountains. Khuyen moved to the Pacific Northwest in search of new frontiers, and brings an artistic vision heavily influenced by Californian Impressionism and Chinese landscape paintings.

You can see more from Khuyen on her website here, and on Instagram here.

 
A series of three photos of the same mountain, labeled 1960, 2010, and 2015. The prominent glacier in the 1960 photo has drastically shrunk in the 2010 photo, and is reduced to a couple of tiny ice patches and a lake in the 2015 photo.

More about Anderson Glacier

Once one of the park's largest and most popular glaciers to visit and climb, by 2015 this south facing glacier had all but disappeared. A large glacial tarn now occurs where the glacier was photographed in 1936. Arrows in identical locations illustrate the dramatic retreat and thinning of the glacier.

 
 
a decorative line divider with curled ends and a snowflake at the center.

Last updated: June 6, 2023

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