ALISHA TAMARCHENKO
About Boiling
Geothermal steam, hydrogen sulfide gas, and microorganisms generate the sulfuric acid that in turn decomposes surrounding clay and creates viscous, boiling, squirting mud.
Nature’s hidden inner heat transforms fixed, motionless earth into moving, bubbling, kinetic, and ever-changing forms that appear and dissolve before one’s own eyes. These forms hover right on the edge between chaos and order. Mud is ready to become anything that your imagination chooses it to be.
These photographs of mudpots were taken at Yellowstone National Park.
About Alisha
Alisha Tamarchenko is a documentary filmmaker and editor. Alisha combines her passion for film with an ongoing inquiry into what it means to be human as a double major in documentary film and anthropology. She is a senior at Ithaca College and will be graduating in May 2020.
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She has worked on four short documentaries during her time at Ithaca College, three of which she produced and directed and all of which she edited. Her work has screened in film festivals in the US and UK.
Although a filmmaker at heart, her passion for documenting also takes form through photography. Freezing the motion and choosing a single frame to work with poses a unique but exciting challenge for someone always concerned with recording ongoing movement.
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At the core of both her film and photographic work, Alisha seeks to spotlight heartening stories that highlight taking action and creating change in the face of the demoralizing prospect of the depletion of the Earth’s natural resources and our unsustainable ways of living.