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• 1. njk  |  April 20th, 2011 at 21:30

  Before I even read who the artist was, I thought to myself “That looks Nuu-chah-nulth”

  Part of it was the colour… NCN artists tend to be a bit bolder with colour, abstraction and pattern than artists from other nations in BC.

• 2. Todd Falkowsky  |  April 21st, 2011 at 08:48

  I am no expert on West Coast illustration, but this piece really seems outside of the groove. The rainbow feels culturally outside of the West Coast canon, graphically similar to other 70′s imagery (why was the rainbow so connected to the 70′s?).

• 3. njk  |  April 21st, 2011 at 12:06

  In NCN oral history, there’s a story about a great flood and a rainbow appearing afterwards.

  A circular one appears in the lower right corner of this curtain

  http://www.turtletrack.org/Issues01/Co08252001/Art/Curtain.jpg

  in reference to that story.

  Though not neccessarily “70s” in style in that particular instance, there’s a cultural connection to be made.

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