Monday, April 18, 2016

Simon Schama and #BirdMosquitoHeartBattle art update, etcetera

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     Canadian "hero" General Wolfe appears in Simon Schama's History Of Britain, Ep.11 "The Wrong Empire".

     It is refreshing to personal awareness to see your country from a different perspective. We, Canadians, Indigenous and otherwise, tend to think of Canadian History as emergence from oral prehistory, directly into Mercantilism and written history through the choices of local peoples. We see it as a beginning, but it was the end of a long series of wars  with France, and the twilight of the British Empire in the Americas, but they left for India and did really shitty things over there, while their descendants continued doing shitty things over here.

     The geographic reality of the late 1700's: the French are nearly able to "box in" the English Empire on the N. American East-coast, by connecting the Mississippi Delta and then-unnamed St. Lawrence Seaway (Quebec); by way of Lake Superior and the Mississippi River. A line of military forts in the North, plus the Mississippi, itself, would be a North American Hadrian's Wall.

     England blew its wad and spent the warchest, the country's savings and future revenues to beat the French; the "crazy" attack on the Quebec cliffs and the Plains Of Abraham became inevitable under the realpolitik of the time. I was astounded to discover that General Wolfe is honoured in WestMinster Abbey, with an awesome sculpture. A martyr for empire.

     The people that were here, already... Allies, to be cheated, at a later date.

     I first became aware of Mr. Schama, as the presenter of the BBC series: The Power Of Art. Very inspiring and enlightening about art history and artistic striving. I like his voice, his writing and storytelling ability.

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#BirdHeartMosquitoBattle
Updated, nearly done, for now. 23" x #52" x 4"
(formerly #BirdAmphibianHeart)
Acrylic #painting details #BingoRageStudio #Ottawa.

#pictographs #smokingmosquito #art #maraboustorks #landscape #sex #conflict #seeker #paishk #canoe #bullet #arrows

#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle, for sale at a #FirstNations artists page at #FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/groups/271035953157/permalink/10154133955143158/

#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle #BingoRageStudio April 18, 2016.

#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle Birds and canoe #pictograph characters detail. #BingoRageStudio April 18, 2016.


#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle #SmokingMosquito detail, arrows. #BingoRageStudio April 18, 2016.



#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle #Seeker figure, over #Ottawa. #BingoRageStudio April 18, 2016.


#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle Newest element, #fish detail. #BingoRageStudio April 18, 2016.


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#BirdMosquitoHeartBattle, for sale at a #FirstNations artists page at #FaceBook https://www.facebook.com/groups/271035953157/permalink/10154133955143158/