There’s no doubt lock down has changed the way we think about a lot of things. Carving has been a long tedious road where you think a lot but you also have things like podcasts and music. I don’t trust people who don’t like music but that’s just me.

Anyway here is video from the Thunderbird that took many years to develop the experience and stemmed from amazing elders who took the time to share the importance of it and why it should be carved as it is. Unpainted and standing atop a beam adzed.

In all there were and still a lot of things going in parallel with this work. The story poles installed and soon a video I will share of this going up as well. I also realize that a picture is worth a thousand words and documenting the work behind carving allows people to see the work that goes into standing these figures up to stand for a long time.

It’s been 11yrs now that I started to work in Cinema4d to make these plans a reality. A complication of things on paper is the disconnect with a sense of place or surrounding. It makes a huge difference to know what the surrounding of the sculpture is going to be and how it fits just right.

All the while it’s important to know how ti improvise with the material because wood has flaws and knots that can’t be read from the outside but even so. Woodwork overall is about utilizing and making sense of what you have to make sculpture feel right in it’s place.

Thunderbird itself is a powerful figure and unlike other tribes in our stories was a small white bird that the power to call on lightening.

Looking forward to sharing the next video in a post looking back #hindsightis2020