Cannupa Hanska (Mandan/Hidatsa/Arikara/Lakota), is one of this year’s NACF fellowship awardees. You can see the other 15 awardees here.
I Love You to Death.
Leave Me A Home.
Nature.
You can see much more at Cannupa Hanska. – 2016 NACF awardees. – Cannupa Hanska at NACF. Click Images for Full Size.
Interesting chimeras. Metal wire skeletons partly covered with textiles plus other techniques and materials. Nature is lion-bear-human-antelope-horse. These merit quite a few looks.
A frivolous note about the name of the artist “hanska” is a colloquial word for glove in Finnish, also “kannu” is a jug and “kannupa” would be something like “but the jug” in a context like: “But the jug was on the shelf even though you didn’t see it!”
(This is much more fortunate than the Finnish language words colliding with Italian, “Look at the sea!” can be “Katso merta!” which is pronounced the same as “Cazzo merta” (d*ck sh*t).)
Ice Swimmer:
I love these language intersections! In Lakota, Cannupa would be pronounced Chah new pah. Canupa in Lakota is pipe (calumet), and Hanska is white Heron.
On Cannupa Hanska’s web site, the globular flutes caught my eye, especially the “cowls” in the Selected works.
Caine @ 2
With the pronunciation, it doesn’t work like it works in writing. I haven’t tried to explain how Finnish words are pronounced, because I feel I don’t know how to do it unambiguously in English apart from doing it letter by letter (each letter is pronounced the same almost always).
BTW, your pen name contains a benign language intersection with the way it would be pronounced in Finnish.
Ice Swimmers:
Those are very captivating. I’d buy one, and I can’t play a flute to save my life.
Cool.
Caine
A tech issue with this post.
I’m using an iPad and getting “a problem occured page is reloading” messages if I come in at the top.
If I go straight to comments, no problem.
The SO’s lap-top has no problem, either.
Maybe the images are too big for iPad?
Chigau, yeah, I would assume it’s the images, they are very large.
I crochet so I’m excited to see crochet used in art. Thanks for posting this! Have you seen Nick Cave’s sound suits? They have a similar spirit to me.
Stellatree @ 7:
:D Honestly, that’s why I decided to highlight this particular artist. It was not only seeing textiles, but seeing something familiar and homey used in a profoundly evocative way.
I haven’t see the sound suits, I’ll look them up.