Terminus: White Glacier by Cal Waichler

 
a decorative line divider with curled ends and a snowflake at the center.
 
Layers of paper with different patterns and colors, each piece cut into twisted and branching shapes that layer over and intertwine with one another.
Revisions on a Moraine
 
Close view of layers of paper with different patterns and colors, each piece cut into twisted and branching shapes that layer over and intertwine with one another.
"A moraine is the material left behind by a moving glacier, usually rock and sediment. Each is unique and evolving. Visit a moraine in the Olympics, and you may find yourself in a crowded rainforest, on the border of a cold clear lake, or perched high above a U-shaped rocky valley.

"As the White Glacier retreats up her valley onto the shoulder of Mt. Olympus, she grooves and terraces the land, leaving behind not only rock and sediment, but sites of possibility.

"In this collage, accumulated material is left behind, just as a moraine is formed. Woodcut prints offer the concrete silhouettes of seracs and trees. Watercolor paintings volunteer the hues of shifting climate and hydrology. Collaged, these sinuous ribbons weave together potential futures for the moraines of the White Glacier and ask: what roots/routes will we encounter in these changing spaces?" - Cal Waichler
 
a decorative line divider with curled ends and a snowflake at the center.
 

Meet the artist: Cal Waichler

Cal Waichler is a printmaker with deep roots in North Central Washington. Through woodcut printmaking, painting, and collage, she explores themes of wilderness, climate change, and the complex ecological stories that occur underfoot, overhead, and out of sight. Cal’s creative work is underpinned by the time she spends mountaineering, commercial fishing, and working as a researcher and educator in environmental fields. She makes artwork to revisit and intuitively express these far-flung experiences.

You can see more from Cal here at her artist website.

 
A pair of photos of a mountain glacier, labeled 1963 and 2010. The glacial ice has retreated noticeably in 2010.

More about the White Glacier

The third largest glacier in the park, the White Glacier originates on Mt. Tom, part of the Mt. Olympus massif. Reference arrows illustrate thinning and retreat (the exact end of debris-covered ice is hard to ascertain in 1963).

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

Last updated: July 3, 2023

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