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August 19, 1999

What a summer!

The tusk has just completed a round trip from Faro to Kleinburg, Toronto and back. It formed the centerpiece of my working display at the Northern Encounters '99 Arts Festival.

During the Festival, I was aided by almost 100 individuals in the design of the carving. Each person was asked to donate their hand, to be placed anywhere on the tusk they chose (with a few restrictions), which I then traced to be used in the hand portion of the design. The hands cover the tusk from bottom to top, almost. The tip of the tusk is to remain uncarved. There are big hands, small hands, young hands and old. The smallest and youngest hand is located closest to the tip, to represent our future.

I was able to photograph several of my models (until I ran out of digital film!) and will display the pics as thumbnails. I will also list the names of those who I was not able to photograph. Every person's hand on the tusk has a number associated with it, so that they can follow the progress of their hand as the work progresses.

The group shot below was taken before the marking began and is a summer art class at the McMichael Gallery. In fact, the bulk of the hands came from kids in this and other summer classes. The other predominant group were Festival artists and support staff, and the staff from the McMichael, who were very generous with their time and energy. Also included are visitors to the Festival and several of my extended family. I will likely add a few more hands before the design is complete and will list them here in future updates.

Thank you to all who have helped,

Shane

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1. Miranda Atwood 2. Malcolm Wilson 3. Joseph Pacak 4. Davide Del Franco 5. Michael Sanita
6. Max Bianchi 7. Michael Chong 8. Tony Lau 9. Nicole Ciciratto 10. Matthew Rossetti
11. Sara Defina 12. Ethan Goodfield
Weinstein 		13. Matthew Nield 14. Trevor Purchase 15. Jacob Oberoe
16. Victoria MacLean 17. Emily Nield 18. Jasmine Grisolia 19. Hollis Keillor 20. Mairin Keillor
21. Sarah Johnston 22. Jennifer Thompson 23. Taylor Self 24. Matthew Gagliardi 25. Fraser Turner
26. Whitney Turner 27. Geraldine Wilson 28. Bill Wilson 29. Sarah Quinnuajuak
Mickiyak		 30. Maura Broadhurst
31. Billy Merkosak 32. Matt Nuqingaq 33. Sarah Buffett 34. Angelica Blais 35. Victoria Ciciretto
36. Sarah Dedonato 37. Matthew Andracci 38. David Sanita 39. Devon Grisolia 40. Andrew Chong
41. Noah Sellen 42. Bianca Garibaldi 43. Melissa Gagliardi 44. Lauren Di Pede 45. Lee Petrie
46. Kirei Samuels 47. David Pelechaty 48. Ruth Nadeau 49. Pam Brooks 50. Angie Eetak
51. Mark Eetak 52. Kiawak Ashoona 53. Joe Ashoona 54. Sam Ashoona 55. Leonora Palmer
56. Sue Palmer 57. Sorroseeleetu
Ashoona		 58. Goota Ashoona 59. Bob Kussey 60. Matthew De Rose
61. Amanda Bertoldi 62. Emily O'Hara 63. Alex Crowther 64. Luc Levert 65. David Hannan
66. Kate Stevens 67. Vesna Krstich 68. Todd Hale 69. Samuel Middleton
(10 months)		 70. Silas Aittauq
71. Alison Faulknor 72. Kevin Bailey 73. Kevin Durnan 74. Samantha Dedonato 75. Sydnia Yu
76. Justin Palmerani 77. Connie van Rijn 78. Sally Webster 79. Josiah Nuilaalik 80. Joanasie Quqatuk
81. Toonoo Sharky 82. Nancy Pockitnuk 83. Miriam Quiyuk 84. Daniel Crowther 85. Lauren Crowther
86. Edward Snowball 87. Paul Bailey 88. Andrew Gann 89. Arwen MacDonell 90. Jennifer Coggan
91. Florence James 92. Grace Kim 93. Alice Kim 94. Jessie Brown 95. Gerry Kortello
96. 97. 98. 99. 100. Jason Wilson
101. Ceilidh Wilson 102. Kent Wilson 103. Suzie Bisaillon 104. 105. Shane Wilson

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