Day 2 / Día 2
Today, Saturday May 20th, the School opened its doors at the Fine Arts Campus of the University of Alaska at Anchorage. Thanks to the support ot Sean Licka and a team of local artists and students, the school was assembled as scheduled. The yellow glow of the school has turned out to provide quite a contrast to the blue of the sky and the staggering mountains. An ongoing program of films is running non-stop until midnight today and tomorrow. Since in Anchorage at this time of the year it does not get dark until midnight, we will be doing a few special screenings at the schoolhouse at that time. There is a good likelihood of bear and moose visitation at the schoolhouse tonight. The subject of the landscape, which we will discuss tomorrow at a roundtable discussion, is all-enveloping in Alaska. "People don't realize when they first come here- Sean Licka says- how enormous this place is. Alaska is larger than Texas, California, and a few more states thrown together". We are barely grappling with the dimensions of the landscapes and the mountains here, at "the last frontier".
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Hoy, Sábado 20 de Mayo, la escuela abrió sus puertas en la Universidad de Alaska. El fulgor Amarillo de la escuela contrastaba fuertemente contra el azul del cielo del norte y sus montañas nevadas. Un programa continuo de películas se presenta en el interior, y puesto que en esta época no anochece, haremos ciclos especiales a la medianoche. Es muy posible que tengamos visitas de osos y venados. Esta noche el tema del paisaje, que discutiremos mañana en una mesa redonda, es un tema central en Alaska. Sean Licka menciona: “la gente no se da cuenta cuando viene aquí por primera vez que Alaska es más grande que Texas, California y varios estados más juntos.”