All That Glitters - Bentwood Box
All That Glitters - Bentwood Box
6 1/2" x 5 1/4" x 5 1/4"
On this steam-bent box are ocean-traveling salmon on the “red-eye” making transition from night beneath glittering stars into dusk, sunrise, and day. Salmon glitter like gold to anticipating fishermen, and there is a fisherman on the box eagerly awaiting his catch. To portray this story, I morphed together Tide Woman and Thunderbird to play with the eye and create effect. Tide Woman is a supernatural woman in Haisla story and Thunderbird is a supernatural bird. The lid is decorated with a starfish. It brings us from the highest forces of the galaxy to the glitter of vivid colour and shine at the lowest floors of the ocean...where even in the darkness brightness thrives. - Paul Windsor
Paul Windsor
CULTURAL GROUP:
Heiltsuk/Haisla
BORN:
December 25, 1979
BIRTHPLACE:
Kitimaat, BC
Paul began working in 1993 with his uncles, Ron Windsor, Mervin Windsor, Fraser Windsor, Wilbur Grant, and Evan Ross. He is experienced in sanding work, painting paddles, carving, casting, and wood lathe work. An early highlight of his career was creating an 8’ x 8’ mural and clothing design to commemorate the September ‘1999 Peace Treaty Signing’ between the Haisla, Helitsuk, and Kitasoo First Nations.
