Sam Toonoo (1969 - )

HE WHO HOLDS LIFE
Cape Dorset, 2001
Stone, Antler, 2 x 4 x 3.5”

“I’ve been working more on emotions lately,” the artist notes. Sam shies away from directly naming the face of death in this work; “It comes, this one, it comes and it never goes away. People dying; death all the time. Happy, sad and then there is this third one.”