Thinking like shakespeare

Nanook of the north

Robert Flaherty’s film, Nanook of the north, there are many beautiful scenes, which capture the essence of Eskimo life. One of my favorite scenes, in the entire film is when we see Nanook constructing an igloo, the snow dwelling of an eskimo.
It essentially starts with Nanook, licking his walrus ivory knife, (Which allows him to cut through snow more easily). Which then goes to a shot of the children playing. They are using themselves as sleds.
After the shot of the children, we see Nanooks wife Nyla, And their youngest child Cunayou, who is nestled in Nyla’s coat. Nyla is chinking the igloo, we then learn, babies find igloo building a bore.
A few shots later, we discover that Nanook was able to construct this sturdy, and
Handsome igloo, within only one hour. Which insinuates, Nanook has undoubtedly done this hundreds of times before. This shot ends with a charming scene of Nanook cutting a small door through the igloo, poking his head out, and smiling, ever so pleasantly towards the camera.
The next shot, begins with Nanook prodding a block of ice in the ground. It takes him just a few moments until he picks up the piece of ice. Which has been carved into a perfect square, He then walks back over to his igloo, and we discover, he is using the block of ice as a window. He does this by cutting out a piece of the igloo, and replacing it with the ice window. Nanook then places the old piece of the igloo wall upright, next to the window. Nanook does this very precisely in order to reflect the sun light through the window.
The last shot, in the scene, we watch as Nanook helps his family, as well as, their belongings, into the igloo. “ a few robes of bear and deer skin, a stone pot, and stone lamps”.

Hunter, emergant timeline paintings

When I started to create art again, I had this set idea of doing work in a linear order (whatever I did was ok, because I would gradually just get better, right?) . But I have realized that the way I and many other artists work, is in a emergant timeline.Which is coincidentally similar to the timeline, of practically every indigenous tribe, I ritually return to where I started with my art, childhood. It is the season, which I count on, to bring me new discovery. In essence, the only thing pure in my life, is that timeline, I think there is a huge connection between indigenous tribes, and artists, And the work I am doing now, connects the two.

Prints, and foil.

A hypertext tale, by my brother, I illustrated.

Story of Sandy (from my sketchbook)

Sandy wasnt outspoken but she could really sing opera, She was a diva. My mother told me one time, that Sandy sang for her and the windows exploded , "to the end of time". I was told that, the beaches were made to accomodate, the broken glass dust. Anyways after that incident, I never spoke to Sandy again.

Grandma-moses/ Joan of arc

The plant that Egyptians made paper from.

Trois Contes, Eskimo hoax

Hunting provides food and raw materials. There are several ways and techniques of hunting: individual hunting, collective hunting, and procuring with various hunting devices. The collective hunt (by surrounding an animal, driving it, and killing it) was done by many indigenous people.