Give the mind a seizure that is needed. The need to crash, reboot and to renew.

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Artwork by Krist Wood

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Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) is a full contact combat sport that allows the use of both striking and grappling techniques, both standing and on the ground, including boxing, wrestling, Brazilian jiu-jitsu, muay Thai, kickboxing, taekwondo, karate, judo and other styles.

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Having been an avid fan of comic books, the word bubble is a familiar image. It’s symbolism became a topic of interest following a persnoal idea for a comicbook. The approach I took to this comic book was to never have the main character visually appear. However, his “word bubbles” would point towards each panel edge. This created a very fun philosophical, and visual tactic that I am sure will continue to poke it’s head from time to time.

The title of the video — “ego” — represents the reality of our need to be heard. It is said that people will only reach eternal happiness after stripping themselves of “ego” or their “false-selves”, imposed by live’s limitations. As such, stripping the urgent need to be heard in order to be fulfilled.

In this video I try to dab into the strains and pains words — or more importantly, thoughts — play in social lives. The urge to be heard can be troublesome, and the need to be understood can be a painful emptiness that goes unanswered.

The freedom to move through time passes deliberately from each thrust of its flaccid wings. Its colours are as important as the blend that they create while they devour each other vigorously. The cannibalistic act of each element continues as they move. Repeating in my belief of its thrusts. Mimicking the instant before, and leaving its tints behind. Each time pushing it forward, innately giving the bird flight.

The blur of a bird flies suspended in my stare and enclosed in a blue frame. Pushing me aside, as it glides in a space I dare not occupy. Entangled in a body which changes as the bird chooses. Suppressed by the contours in which it glides, relevant only to the blue haze it disturbs. But yet, dedicated to this suffocated space, the blur decays. As if dripping its syrup of life into a countless, clicking clock of time and memory. Making its presence known the only way it knows how. Swiftly and gleefully creating a passage of depth and space as it grows and shrinks in the blue maze. And so, in this passing through time and space, the bird lives.

I am caught up and overwhelmed in the reality of it all, as unreal as it may seem. Defining a blur, as something that it should not be. Valuing this bird as something that it aught to be. For as a bird, it’s something that exists, but as it exists, a blur is all it is. The sound of its image echoes in my mind, resonating its blended hues. The echo of similar blurs in similar hazes, and their images are solidified in my mind with dry, monotonous stories whispered loudly to me by estranged authors. Blinding me with more than the limited pallet in my mind. Yet, their voices describe nothing that I see. But only raise questions of the authenticity of my mind. Making me doubt the truth which the bird tells me. For the truth of the bird’s existence in the blue frame lasts but an instant under my whispering stare, but its doubtful moment screams into my mind for countless drips and ticks. And in this loss for order its beautiful complexity reflects in me, as I reflect onto it my own chaotic mind. Letting this bird find a home, and glide anew.

As part of the preparation for the show, I used video footage provided by the artists themselves and made a video with the aim to give the public a brief look into the work that happens in this great jewellery studio.

“This exhibition focuses on the Aayuraa Studio and highlights the innovative spirit of its artists. Specifically, the exhibit features the work of Mathew Nuqingaq, Ruben Komangapik, and Adrienne Stanton, among others. In an unprecedented presentation, the creativity of the North is bound with contemporary metal practices in a collection of new jewellery and metalwork. Mathew Nuqingaq, Ruben Komangapik and Adrienne Stanton were in attendance for the vernissage of the exhibition, which coincided with a symposium on Inuit art that took place at the Art Gallery of Ontario (April 2, 2011). Feheley Fine Arts is pleased to present the Aayuraa Studio and its artists in this exhibition dedicated entirely to jewellery and metalwork.”

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