A figurative painting series by Tatakwan
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Waskikun Series Description
Waskukun means ‘home’ in Plains Cree. This series is made up of images that are directly related to places I have deep and lasting relationships with. Each place provides its own kind of shelter and sustenance, and each I have lived in, return to regularly and consider ‘home’, no matter how far or long I may be away.
Most of these pieces are reworks of a number of paintings I began in the late nineties. The earliest, ‘swamp dog’, is a drawing made during the years I lived on the Similkameen reservation in BC. The original is now in the collection of the Alberta Foundation for the Arts. I continued with more of these figurative works after moving to my traditional territory and the place where my own reservation would be – Edmonton, Alberta. I’ve also included a collage made in St. Paul, Minnesota, another place I used to visit regularly and briefly called home. This is from a series of buffalo images made from or printed onto the page of the phone book where the name Buffalo is or would be.
These paintings are all landscapes and/or portraits of the people or animals of these places and whom I feel a connection with. Though the Waskikun series obviously have a contemporary style, I consider them to be very ‘cultural’. They are deeply expressive of my love of land, community, and certain animals – all of which my people have a long-standing and fundamental relationship to.
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