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- Nika Vaughan
  Image: An artist response to One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk
  As an artist response to One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk, it was hard to wrap my head around how to approach these works. I wanted to make my best effort, and for me that usually means taking risks. My work is not focused on details, but rather I work quickly and try to feel my way into the subject matter, capturing emotion through gesture, mark making and areas of detail. After much deliberation I ended up jumping in, working from a still photograph of Noah Piugattuk, against a snowy horizon line, gazing into the distance towards some unknown point, as small figures behind him walk away.
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- Tarralik Duffy
  Image: Kapuivik is my home
  Tarralik is a multidisciplinary artist and writer who lives and works between Salliq (Coral Harbour), NU and Saskatoon, SK. From jewellery and apparel to graphic works, Duffy's creative output shares distinctly Inuit experiences, which are often infused with a dose of humour and pop culture.
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- Integration and Fracture
  Image: The Religious Divide, Jim Taylor
  My research into the Inuit relocations and Noah’s story inspired me to paint a number of works exploring themes that arose from this journey and really impacted me.
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Canadian Pavilion

Integration and Fracture

Hunters – Life from the Land and Sea
Migratory Cycle
Temptation and Loss
The Religious Divide
Loss of Memory and Knowledge

About

Image: The Religious Divide, Jim Taylor

My research into the Inuit relocations and Noah’s story inspired me to paint a number of works exploring themes that arose from this journey and really impacted me.

Among them are Inuit adaptability and environmental integration, the force of temptation and untruth, and conquest through imposed fracture. The work I do is for the most part abstract with a slight edge into figuration. This allows a visual sourcing of elements such as water currents and courses, plant growth, calligraphy, decay, the skies, and the land, to name a few. It also allows me an emotional outlet and a continuous stream of creativity and suggestion. I almost always work from pure improvisation or the barest of guidelines, painting quickly and constantly; keeping an open creative channel until, ideally, the work realizes itself.

These five paintings are my favourites from this series.