Losing Winter
Lynn Cazabon
February 7 – March 30, 2025
Opening Reception / Meet the Artist: Friday, February 7 / 5-8pm
Lynn Cazabon presents a unique and site-specific realization of Losing Winter, an ongoing participatory artwork and archive of memories and emotions about winter, revealing the personal and cultural ties we have to the season and reflecting upon what we are collectively losing due to climate change impacts on seasonal patterns.
The project addresses the phenomenon of environmental amnesia, wherein with each new generation the changed or degraded state of the environment is perceived as normal, by preserving personal memories about the season as it was in the past in a particular location.
Losing Winter features photographs, videos, and sounds of the winter season in Portsmouth and the Seacoast region. 3S Artspace fostered connections between the artist and community residents to record memories, as well as Portsmouth High School students, who created original artworks in response to the recordings, both included in the exhibit.