Taking a look
at an Inuk-Shuk,
we enter an
Inuit
art shop
Along
old VancouverÕs
waterfront and
are drawn almost immediately to a compelling greenish stone figure
replicating an
Inuk-Shuk, a sort of arctic scarecrow image of a
man built of long legs balancing
a pelvis and on top of that a chest
holding shoulders which support a
great stone head, all of this placed above a cache of seal meat to scare
away hungry bears and wolves who then circle aimlessly on snow and
ice.
This little
Inuk-Shuk
in the
shop has
such verve
as to instill
in me memories
of flying
across the
Canadian
arctic coast
and wondering
what in
the world
could be
down there.
Richard
F. Fleck
rffleck@comcast.net