Oviloo Tunnillie (1949 - )

TIME TO CARVE
Cape Dorset, 2002
Stone, 12.5 x 5 x 4”

Oviloo: “This is me! I have a stone to carve and I usually start working in the morning. The sculpture is about time. The clock is in a round ball which is the world. The clock and the world and the time go by.” Asked whether modern Inuit should stop making works about traditional themes, Oviloo reminds us that an artist is always a product of their environment: “No, we don't have to stop. We can still do anything about the past and the future at the same time. Because I am in the city now, I can think differently about what I am going to carve than when I was in Cape Dorset.”