‘Inside Passage’ offers Alaskan quest

own, and her family had returned her foster siblings to their birthplace.

On the first trip back, they visited the streets in Juno and Wasilla, where Ms. Cody had lived. Asked if she remembered anything when they arrived in Wasilla, she told her husband, “No, but this is the place of my dreams. These images are incredibly familiar to me.”

Mr. Long was the constant observer on “the expedition,” always with a camera in hand. He had worked with the couple previously on the immersive project “STRATA,” and they shared the concept that Alaska, itself, was a character in “Inside Passage.”

“Just the monumental scale of everything hit me, and the rich, ancient textures of everything — the moss, the landscapes, the jagged horizons were very special. It felt like a different world,” he said. Watching his colleague’s experience through a lens “was hilarious at times, and also really painful.”

The cast for “Inside Passage” includes Skyler RayBenson Davis, a Tlingit actor, who has come from Alaska to provide sparks of energy and authenticity. After his first time on an airplane and the car ride from the airport, he declared, “I love Pittsburgh.”

Also in the cast are John Shepard, Laurie Klatscher; Shammen McCune, Kyle Haden and Kelsey Robinson. They will be acting out one woman’s story of loss and discovery, while shedding light on a subject as big as the the fostering and adoption of Native Americans.