Chapter 24: "You should be a part of us"

Speaker 0 00:00:01 Chapter 24. You should be a part of us. This chapter describes a series of six drawings entitled You Should Be a Part of Us <unk> Kauna Made in 2023. Each drawing is on a horizontal piece of paper measuring 25 by 35 centimeters. There is a tactile version of part of this drawing. It is labeled four. This chapter is two minutes long. Speaker 1 00:00:28 There are six black ink drawings in Kabuna series. You should be a part of us hung in a row on the gallery wall. In each bubble, letters of text in both Tu and English appear above and below a line drawing of an object from the artist's home. As you progress along the drawings, it reads, when I was growing up, people asked, what are you that said, you don't belong. You're not part of us. In Nunavut, Inwood asked <unk> that said, do you belong with us? You should be a part of us. The drawings are of objects used in everyday Inuit life. In the first drawing, there is a collection of oos or curved women's lives used for cooking and sewing. Kauna has shown the texture of the antler handles using wavy vertical lines. Her kuk, a gift from her sister is a stone lamp shaped like a semicircle. Speaker 1 00:01:26 The smoothness of the stone is contrasted with the nooby texture of a taku, a stick made of willow root for adjusting the flames at the base of it. The wick for a cool leak is typically arctic cotton dried moss and willow fluff in one drawing. Her hands pick apart this swick material, reading it for the kuk. In another, she threads a needle. Her fingers and wrists have tattoos of fine black lines. This final drying in the series has the tactile version feel the patterns of her tattoos and the weight she gives the lettering. How do the slab feel in comparison to the English letters? Speaker 0 00:02:09 Go to the next chapter to hear about another work by Kabuna.