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• PaulR commented on Annie Pootoogook’s Drawings of contemporary Inuit life
  CLEMOH @5: Ahem! That'd be kilometers! It's Canada, eh! And that'd be thousands of kilometers, not hundreds of miles. It's a more than 1,000 km flight from Iqaluit to Quaqtaq, then another 2,000 to Wabush, then another 2,000+ to Quebec city. Then Annie could rent a car and drive the 4,997 km to Redding, CA. Total distance: more than 10,000 km. From The Arrogant Worms' "Canada's Really Big" When you get down to it, you find out what the truth is, It isn't what you do with it, it's the size that counts .... We're larger than Malaysia, almost as...
• Clemoh commented on Annie Pootoogook’s Drawings of contemporary Inuit life
  @#8 Sorry eh! Always trying to keep the boss happy- if I posted in Metric only you would have known what I was trying to imply;) Peace....
• PaulR commented on Annie Pootoogook’s Drawings of contemporary Inuit life
  CLEMOH: No prob. I know what it's like working for someone who's brain can only handle up to three digit numbers......
• Padraig commented on Annie Pootoogook’s Drawings of contemporary Inuit life
  (Just finished my comment and so it deserves a header - long rambling and possibly with a point :)) Guess I'll have to have a look at more of her work. The one's I've quickly looked at do nothing for me. They look very much like ordinary early high school drawings to me. Does anyone here know anything about her work? I'm curious about the comment above: "Her method, carefully outlined shapes in black filled with blocks of solid color, recalls traditional Inuit drawing..." makes me a little curious, but having read many such comments as 'recalls' or 'reminiscent of'...
• Clemoh commented on Annie Pootoogook’s Drawings of contemporary Inuit life
  Another significant Artistic practice among Inuit would be printmaking. I think a lot of the drawings lend themselves to printmaking in the style and construction of the drawings. I imagine this is something that is reenforced my the teachers who recognize the financial benefit of making prints of drawings rather than the drawings themselves....