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Salmon Vision
lessLIE, 2004
acrylic on paper
AND giclée (edition to be announced)
painting 27.6" X 27.1" framed
painting CAD$1,000 with custom frame
giclée price to be announced
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ARTIST'S STATEMENT
It is a Coast Salish spiRITUAL beLIEf that humans are dependent on animals and
forces of nature for spirituality. In the spirit of spindle whorls, two salmon
heads as well as a human eye are depicted in this design. The two salmon heads
symbolize the spawning stages of a salmon. The salmon is a guardian spirit of
a Coast Salish guardian spirit dancer. The vision gifted to the guardian
spirit dancer is symbolized by the human eye formed between the two salmon
heads.
This design is part of a series of paintings created as a studio component of
my Master's degree. Together, this series of paintings are collectively called
"cultural conFUSION." My "cultural conFUSION" paintings are an expression of
my ambivalence about accepting aesthetic acculturation from northern Northwest
Coast art forms. On one hand, my "cultural conFUSION" paintings are intended
to reflect the reality that many contemporary Coast Salish artists are
appropriating northern and Wakashan art forms of the Northwest Coast. Some
contemporary Coast Salish people are living in cultural conFUSION. Some
contemporary Coast Salish people are cultural cons convicted by colonialism,
living in a political prison of the contructs of "Northwest Coast" and
"Indian" culture. Hence the use of red and black, and the "con" in
"confusion." On the other hand, these paintings express my hesitant acceptance
of influences from northern Northwest Coast art forms on my work as a
contemporary Coast Salish artist. Hence the use of red and place, the
peripheral placement of the trigons in the design, and the "fusion" in
"confusion."
- lessLIE
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