"Tony" LIMITED Edition Photographic Print
LIMITED EDITON PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS are a unique representation on their own, printed on metallic paper and are mat board supported. They are currently offered in two larger sizes per portrait and are limited to 45 prints per size, per portrait. That means that for each portrait there are only 90 limited edition prints total, and when they are gone we will not print anymore of them. Each limited edition print will be hand signed by the Artist, numbered, and will include an artists bill of sale and an original Certificate of Authenticity with each sale.
OPEN EDITION PHOTOGRAPHIC PRINTS are printed on metallic paper and are mat board supported. These prints will be limited to one small size, with no limit to the number of prints that will be sold. Each print will be hand signed and will include an artists bill of sale and certificate of authenticity.
Each print sale will also include a description of the portrait purchased when applicable.
Right now these are set up as print on demand so please allow up to 2 weeks for delivery.
“TONY” English name “Waagosh/Fox” Ojibwe name 2019
Fabric and Thread.
49”H x 62”W. 125cmH x 158cmW
(Artist’s Husband)
This portrait is about my husbands life work as an educator and an activist preserving his language and culture for generations to come. The goldfinches are flying out of his mouth as he bestows these gifts to our son. This portrait took about 5 full days just to sew it. When I’d finished, and had laid it flat on my kitchen table to admire it, I quickly realized that it would not lay flat. It had ripples that created circles in the center of the portrait. At the time, I’d intended to stretch my portraits over a frame like a canvas…but this one would not lay flat…I cried not knowing enough about sewing to know what I’d done wrong or how in the world I was going to fix it. I felt completely incompetent. I walked away from it in a panic hopeful that if I just took some time to breathe that I’d figure it out. I went to bed, couldn’t sleep, came back out in the middle of the night and spread it out in front of me again.
I’d always felt like these portraits weren’t mine, that I was just the vessel from which they came. Then suddenly when I looked at this piece, and the unintended circular movement that had shown up unexpectedly, they looked like ripples in a pond. That is exactly the nature of my husband’s life’s work. To effect change, one small movement that steadily grows and expands exponentially over time. I don’t know how it got there, but it absolutely belonged there. A sacred symbol for many cultures. The circle, an ancient and universal symbol for wholeness and unity.