I Met My Soul, Thomas Iksiraq (Inuit, Baker Lake), 1998 Woodcut + Stencil, Pencil Signed Print (ed. 40) bull fighter I think it’s pretty striking

I think it’s pretty striking

There's a corresponding trail of nail punched holes (recesses) running along side them

I understand that this particular steel-encased model of standing noisemaker was standard at police and fire stations in the late 19th and early 20th century

and woven of lined/ledger paper and a heavier weight maize colored paper

I Met My Soul, Thomas Iksiraq (Inuit, Baker Lake), 1998 Woodcut + Stencil, Pencil Signed Print (ed. 40) bull fighter I think it’s pretty strikingI found this one on Ebay, purchased from a dealer in Canada; I'm always on the hunt for original Inuit drawings, and while this is a print (woodcut with stencil; edition of 40), I think it has the immediacy of a drawing, and it just completely leapt out to me, so strikingly graphic, and unusual feeling too, almost surrealist in sensibility. (I think of Man Ray's Indestructible Object, the metronome with photograph of Lee Miller's eye, ticking back and