"Chase Overland" interviews artists in Portland, Maine.

In Maine, where paper mills have long been central to communities, an architect and chemist embark on a multimillion-dollar project to repurpose a closed paper mill in Madison, transforming it into a wood fiber insulation manufacturing facility over four years.

A STORY OF HEALING THROUGH COLD OCEAN WATERS OF THE MAINE COAST

Heritable uses satirical play and stylized, musical set pieces to undermine the reproduction of nativist/eugenicist rhetoric in Maine, to unsettle perceptions of "Americana" signifiers, and to suggest an alternate space that can reckon with and transcend historical harm.