Vie Au Grand Nord (La)

Hermes Historias De Carres > Autumn-Winter 2010

In the glacial immensity of the ice field, the light transforms each being and each object into a magical and glowing apparition. Everything which exists has a soul and the birch, a sacred tree, connects man with the cosmos. Life for the Inuit and the Yupiit depends on animals. Those they hunt or fish and those which help them in these tasks occupy the space of this carre, just as much as the men and women with their open, smiling faces. each object is infinitely poetic, whether the mask of the Moon Spirit, a Yup’ik mask which allows the spirits of animals to join the human world, or else the dance fan made from goose and swan feathers.