Art about glaciers queer relationships political anxiety and the meaning of Blackness in open spaceampampmdashBorealis is a shapeshifting logbook of Aisha Sabatini Sloanampamprsquos experiences moving through the Alaskan outdoors.ampampnbsp In Borealis Aisha Sabatini Sloan observes shorelines mountains bald eagles and Black fellow travelers while feeling menaced by the specter of nature writing. She considers the meaning of open spaces versus enclosed ones and maps out the web of queer relationships that connect her to this quaint Alaskan town. Triangulating the landscapes she moves through with glacial backdrops in the work of Black conceptual artists and writers Sabatini Sloan complicates tropes of Alaska to suggest that the excitement exploration and possibility of mythmaking can also be twinned by isolation anxiety and boredom.