A Time Past
All of my family feels a symbiotic relationship to the Canadian bush.
Shining Tree or Wasakwagama was/is a place of family history, of home.
Several decades ago I started carving out in Tobermoray, Ontario with
Wilmer Nadjiwon.
Nadjiwon is a Master carver, Elder and
former Chief of the Cape Croker Chippewa peoples.
I carved alongside Nadjiwon,
William Bondy, Harold Rice and others.
This was a time of sharing stories while working
in and on the trees.
Hours of silent voiced focus
accentuated by the woodpeckers strikes echoed by
Baapasse-Nadjiwon’s
mallet and chisel.
This exhibition communicates my history
and is my telling.
It tells a time of sculpture speak.