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Contents © 2000-2004 John Farnsworth
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WEJNA
(Caribou) |
| These Caribou were painted following an exciting trip
to Alaska in 1982, when I was commissioned by ARCO ALASKA to do a large
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| of Caribou for their offices. I went to Anchorage, spent a week
there, and flew, with a local
bush pilot, 200 miles out to a frozen lake where we landed in the middle of a herd of
caribou. He was the only
pilot in town who would chance the flight, due to threatening weather
conditions, and having to fly back through the mountains after dark.
Wejna, by the way, is, according to Bruce Chatwin in
his book, IN PATAGONIA, a Yaghan word meaning 'to be loose or easily
moved as a broken bone or the blade of a knife' - 'to be attached yet
loose, as an eye or bone in its socket' - 'to swing, move or
travel' - or simply 'to exist or be'. I found the Caribou to
be homely, awkward looking creatures when standing still, yet beautiful
and graceful and fluid when in motion. |
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