I Met My Soul, Thomas Iksiraq (Inuit, Baker Lake), 1998 Woodcut + Stencil, Pencil Signed Print (ed. 40) bull fighter including one (pictured first) with

including one (pictured first) with white paper adhered to the bottom as a correction or addendum

with a few smudges to the white of the paper but the drawing clear and strong

I purchased from an artist and collector a couple of years ago and have lived with since

There's a corresponding trail of nail punched holes (recesses) running along side them

and he is great fun to animate

I Met My Soul, Thomas Iksiraq (Inuit, Baker Lake), 1998 Woodcut + Stencil, Pencil Signed Print (ed. 40) bull fighter including one (pictured first) withI 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