North-south Encounter
My encounter with Cape Dorset began in 2004 by experiencing and falling in love with Shuvinai Ashoona's large-scale tiled drawing depiction of it. The entire scene was obsessively and meticulously rendered using pen and ink that consumed 12 sheets of paper. Made in 2003, Composition (Overlooking Cape Dorset) presents a massive Kinngait (mountain). Dense, dark and animistic, it seems to pour down and invade the rest of the land. Prefabricated box houses dot the nearly deserted settlement around it, linked by wired telephone poles and a scattering of dirt roads.
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My encounter with Cape Dorset began in 2004 by experiencing and falling in love with Shuvinai Ashoona's large-scale tiled drawing depiction of it. The entire scene was obsessively and meticulously rendered using pen and ink that consumed 12 sheets of paper. Made in 2003, Composition (Overlooking Cape Dorset) presents a massive Kinngait (mountain). Dense, dark and animistic, it seems to pour down and invade the rest of the land. Prefabricated box houses dot the nearly deserted settlement around it, linked by wired telephone poles and a scattering of dirt roads.
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