CircumSolar is a long-term project by Rebeca Méndez where she follows the journey of a small bird, the arctic tern (sterna paradisaea) on its annual migration from the Arctic to the Antarctic and back again, an approximate 55,000-mile journey that is the longest migration recorded. With the tern as its protagonist, CircumSolar looks to explore larger themes critical to our time, such as the unstoppable force of migration, the ecological concern of climate change, the VI mass extinction, and the geopolitics of the changing landscapes of coastal lands and the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Watch the presentation from December 9, 2020.