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| In the museum world, this is something to celebrate! |
Gwaai and
Jaalen arrived on September 1st and it was wonderful to bring them together with
both boxes in the same space, on the same continent! They began by having a
close look at the box. Having worked from photographs that flattened the carved
design into a two-dimensional image, it was important to think about carving
angles, v grooves, planes, and how all of this worked with the formline design.
They also thought a bit more about the box carver’s ‘tells,’ his characteristic
use of formline and planes.
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| And so is this: Haida artists together with the box. Gwaai and Jaalen reacquaint themselves with the box's complexity |
Then they
took the tracing of the design they had made from the scale photographs and
began applying the design to the new box
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| tracing of design overlaid onto scale photograph of front of box |
And finally
they began to paint. Some of the key parts of the design are painted before
carving so the paint doesn’t run into the carved areas.
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| beginning to paint the design outline |
And finally
they were able to begin carving. Now things get interesting…
All photographs in this blog post are by Laura Peers.
