What Was That All About

Sturgeon (2021) and Coelacanth (2021) by Wally Dion (Saulteaux) circuit boards, crystals, plywood, nails

Several years ago, Blackfoot elder; Leroy Little Bear, was making a presentation in Banff Alberta about the fact that animals used to talk to people, or that people could understand animals. Part riddle, part prophecy, Little Bear ended by stating that: ‘he supposed they (the fish) still talk, albeit at a slowed pace and tempo; were a person to wait long enough they would undoubtably detect the tiniest of murmurs, or bubbles from the fish’. This notion of fish talking to humans was reiterated by Christie Belcourt in her 2007 painting: ‘What the Sturgeon Told Me’. Belcourt describes a dream she had wherein a sturgeon visited her to convey a message about the dams and disruption of traditional waterways.

Insisting more people should get to wear an old oilskin hat and smoke a pipe at work, the American populace on Tuesday demanded more jobs in which a person gets to steer a ship with a big wooden wheel. “To rebuild our nation’s middle class, workers will need good, stable jobs in which they navigate the choppy waters of the open sea by firmly gripping a large wheel of solid oak, mahogany, or teak,” said Kansas City, MO resident Luke Doran, who echoed the sentiments of all 335 million Americans when, during a Labor Department hearing at which economists tried to explain the infeasibility of constructing such a massive fleet of sailing ships, he cut off the experts by yelling “Land ho!” at the top of his lungs.

A Baroque Style Wrought Iron Hearth Game Rack, 20th Century

Profusely decorated with small scroll ornamentation overall, fitted with five large hooks for hanging.