01 December 2011

"Something almost being said"?

Arthur Renwick is a Canadian artist who combines punctuation and landscape to make a re-reading - something beyond the usually-written text ...

This is Man Afraid of His Horses
And this is Sitting Bull -
"Totem Cafe" takes me back to the B.C. of my youth, but - considered in the light of the photos above - makes the kind of statement that hadn't even started to be articulated back then -

I first saw his work among a set of photos of Photomonth in Montreal. He's probably best known for his "Masks" photos, "a repositioning of First Nations identity".

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