JANUS 

  sculpture

My Telling

 

 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, former Chief of the 

Cape Croker Chippewa peoples and friend.

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 woodpecker's strikes echoed by

Baapasse-Nadjiwon’s

mallet and chisel.

This exhibition communicates my history, my Grandmother's

history and is my telling.


It tells a time of sculpture speak.