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Fresh Artifacts
Cast resin, steel, copper nails, reflective tape, wax
52 x 12 inches 132.1 x 30.5 cm
Titled in overt opposition to archeological or religious fixations on objects seen as somehow locked in a state of purely historic value, Fresh Artifacts consists of three suspended resin casts taken from a wooden fox stretcher used by Maureen’s father, Eddie Gruben. Renowned as the region’s most successful trapper, he would often have as many as 500 traps in a line stretching from Tuktoyaktuk to …
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