A wonderful carving from Toona Iqulik, in grey stone with beautifulearth colors coming through. Toona is from Baker Lake, another Inuit community with lots of carving and print making activity.
Toona is well known for strong but simple
carvings of people, male, females, mother and child, families, etc. His style is simple, with great use of strong curves. Sometimes his carvings are awkward in shape. The interesting thing is that what I call awkward does at the same time convey strong feelings of burden, of life. Somehow they make me think about Van Gogh's early drawings of people's hard life on the land. This carving is 5 by 8 by 11.5
