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sacRED circle
lessLIE
(Coast Salish)
Northwest Coast
2005
acrylic on paper
26" x 25.5" with custom frame
$ 1,400.00 CDN with custom frame
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As a contemporary Coast Salish artist whose oral tradition is ARTiculated through visual art, I have a mediational interest in the visual aspects of literacy. I know that Coast Salish art is a visual ARTiculation of the values and world view of Coast Salish people. After studying concrete poets and some of the visual roots of literacy, and some of the visual aspects of literacy, I know that literacy is an expression of Western values and world view. Look at literacy, and see the
Western Word View
words are worlds
on a linear
progression
towards perfection
every sentence
is society
every letter
is technology
every literate line
is time
every pAGE
is a stage
of cultural
evolution
when we write right
with this literacy
we help
right reality
This is a concrete poem I wrote as a mediational meditation on the visual
aspects of literacy as it relates to Coast Salish art. As a mediational
attempt between Coast Salish visual art and literacy, some of the TEXTiles which ARTiculate my artwork are attempts to make literacy visual, through the literate equivalent of the Northwest Coast design device of visual punning.
This circular Coast Salish design depicts four faces in a circle, sharing
the same sacRED, circular middle mouth. The four faces symbolize Coast Salish people perpetuating the oral tradition, while the middle mouth symbolizes the oral tradition. Through the oral tradition, in Coast Salish spirituality, the sacRED is subtly suggested through song and dance.
if you can
see the c-form
if you can
see the sacred
inside the circle
you have
read the red
--lessLIE
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