CRUSHEVIL
June 29th, 2008
Hello, my portfolio website is online now, please have a look: www.crushevil.co.uk. Above is a scan from a sketchbook.
June 2008 Archive
Cone shape costume
June 28th, 2008
Cone shape costume, originally uploaded by supersmoo.
Tibetan Buddhist postcards
June 25th, 2008
Mahakala
Avalokiteshvara
Dugkar
Snouter
June 24th, 2008
Snouter, in the folklore section., originally uploaded by Curious Expeditions.
“Maskerade” postcard
June 23rd, 2008
By Alette B. Berends.
Tropen museum masks
June 21st, 2008
Spirits
June 20th, 2008
The helping spirit, Issitoq, assists in locating those who have breached taboos. Known as Giant-eye, his melancholy nature and peculiar appearance was portrayed by the Eskimo Arnaqaoq… (Drawing by Arnaqaoq from Rasmussen, Rasmussens Thulefahrt.)
‘The Big Lemming’, stonecut print by Pudlo, Cape Dorset, Eskimo, 1961
Carving of a tupilak (spirit), Eskimo, collected in Angmagssalik, E. Greenland, 1931-2. National Museum of Denmark, Department of Ethnography
An Eskimo shaman spirit, with leg bones and inner organs revealed, seems to stalk his prey with sacrificial blade in hand. The … deer mask reveals the transcendental nature of the spirit’s bloody mission. Stonecut print by William Noah, Barnabas Oosuaq and Martha Noah, Baker Lake, Eskimo, 1970. Sanavik Cooperative, Baker Lake, on loan to the Winnepeg Art Gallery
Screen print after a canyon painting. S.E. Utah
The spirit that attacks and destroys the shaman-neophyte can become instructor, ally, and helper after the trials and ordeals of initiation have been endured. Among many Eskimo peoples, for example, the acquisition of spirits was often a violent process involving maiming and dismembering, The Eskimo shaman Niviatsian reported that, when he was being attacked by a walrus two other spirits ravaged him. This carving depicts a spirit wielding a knife of initiatory dismemberment. (Whalebone, antler, sinew, ivory, and stone carving by Karoo Ashvak, Spence Bay, Eskimo, 1972)
Reading Shaman: The wounded healer by Joan Halifax.
ART ART ART
June 5th, 2008
Come see some art this Friday 6th June! There are many good things to see on the 6th floor studio, including my own work…
The Leeds School of Contemporary Art & Graphic Design
GUEST PREVIEW
6pm – 9pm
6th (and 7th and 8th?) floor studio of H Building, Leeds Met Gallery and Fine Art Studios
Woodhouse Lane
Leeds
LS1 3HE