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Rangifer Sapiens
1882-1951
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, cobalt underglaze and clear glaze
During the summer of 2009 I lived alone for three months on the isolated Grey Islands off the north coast of Newfoundland. The largest island is the location of an abandoned community, Grey Islands Harbour, a once bustling place now empty because of the 1960s government policy of resettlement. Few remnants of the human community remain - a cemetary, a handful of ruined houses, pottery shards on the beach, and very little else. But it would be inaccurate to say the island is uninhabited: shortly after the people left in 1961 a herd of caribou was transplanted there. For more than half a century they have successfully persisted where humans could no longer - they have inherited the island in an ecological, physical and spiritual sense. The caribou leave their own record on the land - they carve trails through the brush with their footsteps and shed their antlers every fall. It is through these artefacts - antlers, shards, gravestones - that I draw a connection between past and present, human and animal, presence and absence.
1886-1919
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, cobalt underglaze and clear glaze
1878-1900 and 1880-1900
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, cobalt underglaze and clear glaze
1835-1919
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, cobalt underglaze and clear glaze
1876-1952
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, cobalt underglaze and clear glaze
1819-1896
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, cadmium underglaze and clear glaze
1879-1905<
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, cobalt underglaze and clear glaze
1901-1953
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, cobalt underglaze, clear glaze and gold lustre
1847-1922
Terra cotta with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate and glaze
1850-1904
Terra cotta with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate and glaze
1922-1922
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, cobalt underglaze and clear glaze
1836-1911
Terra cotta with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate and glaze
1807-1884
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, cobalt underglaze and clear glaze
1812-1878
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, cadmium underglaze and clear glaze
1914-1922, 1916-1922 and 1919-1922
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, clear glaze and decals
1898-1923, 1904-1922, and 1914-1915
White earthenware with terra sigillata, cobalt sulfate, clear glaze and decals