Raven Steals the Fishing Industry - Red Cedar Panel
Raven Steals the Fishing Industry - Red Cedar Panel
Sage Nowak
35" dia. x 1 1/2"
Last spring was the first year I didn’t go back to Telegraph Creek to get salmon from the Stikine River. Missing my family and country, I figured I’d pay my dues to totl’uga (coho salmon) for supporting the Nations by carving them a piece. Deciding to mix things up, I added the infamous Raven, the trickster, that has been shaking up my life. Fishing is a luxury now, thanks to capitalism and the way society is devolving. Our rivers are being polluted with diseased farmed fish, which are killing native species and creating a cancer to oblivious consumers, hungry for a deal. If only folks knew that greed, developed by advertising and corporations, is curable by the sheer beauty and intuitive symbiosis of our natural world. How do we fight capitalism and save the environment? Raven here symbolizes change: the original Robin Hood, maintaining natural law since animals could talk. - Sage Nowak
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Sage Nowak
CULTURAL GROUP:
Tahltan/Vuntut Gwitchin
BORN:
December 20, 1992
BIRTHPLACE:
Whitehorse, YT
Sage was mentored by Tlingit artist Calvin Morburg from the Teslin community. After years spent travelling, Sage moved to Terrace, B.C., and studied at the Freda Diesing School under master carvers Stan Bevan, Dean Heron, Ken McNeil and Dempsey Bob. Sage currently resides in Vancouver, B.C. and has been working with prominent young Ts’msyen/Cree artist Phil Gray.
