'Yukon's Own Thomas Crowne Affair' - CBC Radio One - Q Featurette
September 18, 2007
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(moose antler skull carving, moose antler skull sculpture)
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Sandy Coleman, CBC Announcer - Introduction
Well, a massive power outage, that plunges much of the Yukon into darkness, security cameras rendered useless. While staff are resetting alarms at the Canada Games Centre, a $50,000 piece of art mysteriously goes missing. Coincidence, or a version of the Yukon's very own 'Thomas Crowne Affair'? Here's some reaction from the artist, Shane Wilson:
Shane Wilson, Sculptor
(Clips compiled from interview with Nancy Thompson, Host, CBC Radio Whitehorse Noon Show)
Well, my wife, Miranda, heard the news on CBC this morning and gave me a shout, woke me up. I was shocked, to say the very least ... a terrible sense of loss. The piece took three years. It was my legacy. I left it behind in the Yukon as a donation for all Yukoners, dedicated to Ruth McCullough for her phenomenal contributions to the arts in Yukon. But, strangely, I was a little conflicted, I mean I was struck by a sense of loss and shock but also a strange, curious sense of wonder that someone, or a group of people, would have stolen a work of mine in such an intentional, planned way. I guess they touched nothing else in the building, they came after that and that's what they wanted. So in a way it's like a back-handed compliment.
They say in the art world that you know you've made it when someone steals your work.
It's flabbergasting to believe that someone would actually steal it, it's so big! Where will they put it? Obviously someone had some idea where they were going to put it or what they were going to do with it.
Sandy Coleman, CBC Announcer - Conclusion
And that remains the question, where are they going to put it? What are they doing with it?
That was artist, Shane Wilson. His moose antler carving, 'Yukon Seasons' was stolen Friday night from the Canada Games Centre. It was the only piece of art work stolen in what appears to be a targeted art heist. We will continue to follow this story.
(Clips compiled from interview with Nancy Thompson, Host, CBC Radio Whitehorse Noon Show)
Well, my wife, Miranda, heard the news on CBC this morning and gave me a shout, woke me up. I was shocked, to say the very least ... a terrible sense of loss. The piece took three years. It was my legacy. I left it behind in the Yukon as a donation for all Yukoners, dedicated to Ruth McCullough for her phenomenal contributions to the arts in Yukon. But, strangely, I was a little conflicted, I mean I was struck by a sense of loss and shock but also a strange, curious sense of wonder that someone, or a group of people, would have stolen a work of mine in such an intentional, planned way. I guess they touched nothing else in the building, they came after that and that's what they wanted. So in a way it's like a back-handed compliment.
They say in the art world that you know you've made it when someone steals your work.
It's flabbergasting to believe that someone would actually steal it, it's so big! Where will they put it? Obviously someone had some idea where they were going to put it or what they were going to do with it.
Sandy Coleman, CBC Announcer - Conclusion
And that remains the question, where are they going to put it? What are they doing with it?
That was artist, Shane Wilson. His moose antler carving, 'Yukon Seasons' was stolen Friday night from the Canada Games Centre. It was the only piece of art work stolen in what appears to be a targeted art heist. We will continue to follow this story.