But they cradled me, yes?

Something similar to this. Though I do need to get more ink for my printer 🥴

Thought this was all of them but I found a few more after & im too lazy to take a new picture but Howl says Hi

Inuit artist PITALOOSIE SAILA (1942-2021)

I remember how Inuit used to live, thinking of them back then, my relatives. I also recall how the clothing was made; that is what I base my drawings on when I draw people.

-Pitaloosie Saila

(From “Kinngait: Riding Light Into the World; Producer: Site Media; Director: Annette Mangaard)

Pitaloosie was born in 1942 on the southwest coast of Baffin Island near what is now the community of Cape Dorset. She spent her childhood years in various hospitals in Quebec and Ontario for treatment of tuberculosis. She learned

English during this time, and recalls the difficulty she experienced in relearning her native language upon her return to Baffin Island in 1957. She is now one of the few of her generation who speak both English and Inuktitut fluently.

Pitaloosie began drawing in the early 1960’s, and quickly established herself as a versatile and intelligent graphic artist.

Over the years, she has become a familiar presence in the Kinngait Studios, and her work has been included in annual

print collections since 1968.

We barely know anything about Madagascar pre-500CE. We don’t even know whether the island had a permanent population before then, despite finding a bunch of much older signs of temporary human presence.

Malagasy mythology makes mention of the vazimba, a “precursor” ethnic group that might or might not be distinct from Madagascar’s current population.

The point is, we do not know.

So you were in Madagascar when the pyramids were being built in Egypt, i.e. during one of the most obscure, most undocumented parts of Madagascar’s human history?

So I've been going through files, trying to move myself towards getting back to sharing my art again, cause I miss talking with yall! But also the capitalism and ai scrapers eating up all my former posting haunts and turning them into ghouls has me looking at posting places I have more control of, like patreon and substack - but also has me shuffling through files looking for backgrounds and things i could post and in so have stumbled on a ton of centaur doodles that I've never shared! I'm just never not drawing centaurs, so these were for no purpose other than love of the game. And cause this one never ceases to make me laugh so yall need to enjoy it too

I managed to finish this just in time! Almost missed MerMay..

Thank you to the lovely person on Patreon that requested a Mer version of the boys <3 I only did Ghost for now but I had SO much fun <3