Manitoba Gothic
2012
Acrylic, Ink and Ink-stamp on Raw Canvas
36x48inches
In that summer of 1881-2 a band of Sioux Indians lived in the flats just below the village and in the spring they moved farther south. They hunted and trapped and tried to live on the proceeds of their sales of furs but their passion for gambling kept them pretty poor.
"There are three tents of Indians camped here and I can go down sometimes to see what they have so that I can make trades with them. Once or twice I had quite a pow-wow with them. One of them would get his tom-tom and begin beating a tune tum, tum, tum, tum and keep right on and then suddenly he would start yelling hee yah, hee hah then jump up and down and dance around the fire like a turkey cock with all his feathers on his head; then I would jump up and follow him, hee-hawing all the time.
Once Jim Hill and I nearly killed them with laughing. He and I danced the highland fling, he on one side of the fire and I on the other. The Indians rolled over and laughed fit to split their sides and said Misishin (good)"
From a self published area history book, Beneath the Long Grass a letter written by Alex Reid, 1884.
"There are three tents of Indians camped here and I can go down sometimes to see what they have so that I can make trades with them. Once or twice I had quite a pow-wow with them. One of them would get his tom-tom and begin beating a tune tum, tum, tum, tum and keep right on and then suddenly he would start yelling hee yah, hee hah then jump up and down and dance around the fire like a turkey cock with all his feathers on his head; then I would jump up and follow him, hee-hawing all the time.
Once Jim Hill and I nearly killed them with laughing. He and I danced the highland fling, he on one side of the fire and I on the other. The Indians rolled over and laughed fit to split their sides and said Misishin (good)"
From a self published area history book, Beneath the Long Grass a letter written by Alex Reid, 1884.
Sharon Hogg is a visual artist working in Calgary Alberta and Lombardy Ontario, Canada. She holds a Bachelors of Fine Art and a Masters of Fine Art from the Alberta College of Art and Design.
Where humans intersect with unseen natural forces, she imagines what lies behind or beneath the surface. More than seeing, she wants to feel the backstory, the understory, the glue that holds it all together. Her work seeks to bring that underlying level of awareness closer to the visible and the touchable.
The Sublime, New Materialism and the Vorticists are influences.