Inuit Clothing

[NEIL]

There is a younger contemporary Inuit artist making sealskin clothing the traditional way, but who creates spectacular images contrasting light and dark, short and long, textured and smooth, etc., that I think I have ever seen in the genre. A documentary that included this artist was aired a few years ago on Canadian television, unfortunately, I haven't been able to find her/the film again and foolishly didn't think to jot down her name. Her work was outstanding - as in - modern art in the true sense of the word - but she uses very traditional materials and execution, constructing these elements into such innovative  and visually arresting compositions, you forget you're looking at clothing, though all of it is worn and used by the folks up there doing the seal hunt. It's traditional, and yet, it's way beyond merely traditional, way beyond anything seen in the 'everyday' and not at all fashion-y or runway type stuff. Might she have been featured in the film: Angry Inuk?

[Schneiderfrei]

I love this stuff: indigenous clothing art, of any kind.

Somewhere online is a pattern for an Inuit parka that was made from intestinal lining. very light, like plastic to look at.

I any case thanks for this contribution.

G