The work of award winning aboriginal artist
Shawn Hunt displays humour and irony. In paintings currently on display at the
Audain Museum in Whistler, he plays with aboriginal mythology.
The painting on the left, "Supermarket Eagle," shows a bird with a tin of salmon in its talons.
Below, "Raven steals my light," visually puns on an aboriginal
myth shared by west coast nations. It also refers to a
book by fellow artist
Bill Reid and poet
Robert Bringhurst.
Hunt's bird displays its stolen prize: a red plastic lighter dangles from its talons.
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