"Wait, like summer camp?"
Yeah, you read that right. Like the coolest summer camp for adults who love type II (and a little type III) fun, all together in some of the most remote and beautiful Canadian mountain ranges with zero cell signal for weeks at a time.
Every day without fail, one of the docs at camp would ask, "Alex, how's it going today?"
Every day my answer was the same:
^^^ apologies I lost my voice in the mountains
As discussed in the "Welcome to Mack Minutes" issue, each of these will start with a TLDR for the neurodivergent / ADHD compadres. So here's the scoop:
I'm currently between weeks working with the Alpine Club of Canada's General Mountaineering Camp, based out of the Remillard range in British Columbia. Last week I worked as the coordinator, this week I return as the photographer (!!). Absolutely thrilled with the career change right now 😉
Following next week's GMC I'm on a hiking / backcountry trip through the Rockies. Revisiting some of my favourite places which are arguably some of the most beautiful and coveted in Canada. And it's no surprise I have about 50 pounds of camera gear packed lol.
I've been announced as one of the Season 1 artists for Devil x Detail 😈
Beyond stoked on this! Designing "wearable art" at the intersection of apparel and technology. This is the first apparel series I've ever had the opportunity to create and love everything that DxD is about. The most recent drop by Juice Bruns is INSANE and I cannot wait to show you all what's coming. More details to be released later this month.
We are live! 
Juice Bruns | Devil x Detail
"Based Frames" on Zora. This series of 35mm frames from the Canadian mountains will continue when I return. The upcoming edition will be 3 / 12 monthly drops that will take place over course of the year.
Skipping it this time as I'm about to head out the door and make my 7-hour journey to our staging location! I'm sure I'll have more long-format musings and writings when I'm back in one place.
Bu in the meantime, if you're curious to find out more about the mountaineering camp, I made a short series of reels that you might find interesting:
Come with me to Mountaineering Camp
Part 1 | Part 2 | Part 3 | Part 4
Here's a roundup of currently available art [physical and digital]:
Limited edition video print, in collaboration with SHILLR and Infinite Objects:
"Sekoia" is a mixed-media piece combining physical watercolour, 35mm film photography and animationButterfly: watercolour painted by hand, frame-by-framePhotograph: Kootenay National Park, British Columbia, on Kodak Gold 200 35mm film Part of SHILLR Media S2 Burn-To-Redeem Collection Edition of 24
Three 1/1 photographs. No list price. Open to offers.
https://foundation.app/collection/ascension-alexmack
Edition of 10, 0.04 ETH. Mixed media: watercolour, 35mm film & digital animation.
"Flutter", 2024 Media: physical watercolour; 35mm film photography; frame-by-frame sequence animation of watercolour elements. All elements and final piece created by Alex Mackenzie. Artist: Alex Mackenzie Special edition: Floraculture Art Exihibition #1, March 2024
1/1 watercolour photograph, in Flannel Collective’s “From Thought to Form” Exhibition. List price 0.69 ETH, minted in March 2023. Open to offers.
I've had a vision for some time, A chromatic scope for arts, entwined Between lens and pigment, Water and mind. Some paradoxical fission in my imagination...
Edition of 20, 0.69 SOL. Mixed media: watercolour, 35mm film & digital animation.
"Long Gone", 2024Mixed media: frame-by-frame physical watercolour on 35mm film photoPhoto: Coast mountains alpine, British Columbia, Canada on Kodak Portra 400Artist: Alex Mackenzie
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