I Met My Soul, Thomas Iksiraq (Inuit, Baker Lake), 1998 Woodcut + Stencil, Pencil Signed Print (ed. 40) folk art standing frame Perhaps it was once part

Perhaps it was once part of a tablecloth decoration

including reminders to pay the jeweler

Very similar in manner to a Victorian die cut and paper lace valentine

evocative rendering (which looks very much like a graphite drawing) of these two stockings on wire hanger is one he seems especially to have loved

On the interior of the lid are two cranes

I Met My Soul, Thomas Iksiraq (Inuit, Baker Lake), 1998 Woodcut + Stencil, Pencil Signed Print (ed. 40) folk art standing frame Perhaps it was once partI found this one on Ebay, purchased from a dealer in Canada; I'm always on the hunt for original Inuit drawings, and while this is a print (woodcut with stencil; edition of 40), I think it has the immediacy of a drawing, and it just completely leapt out to me, so strikingly graphic, and unusual feeling too, almost surrealist in sensibility. (I think of Man Ray's Indestructible Object, the metronome with photograph of Lee Miller's eye, ticking back and