Invited artist: NEIL AMBROSE-SMITH
Coyote saw it and it was good, 2022
10 inches diameter
steel and laser cut sawmill blade, ed. of 3
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Should I wonder if we’ll think about Earth not as a resource of our entitlement, but Earth as an obligation? At a time in our not so distant past we needed Trees as wood and not as Trees. Today everyone needs Trees as Trees and not as wood. Coyote sees the repurposing of iron sawmill blades as a reminder of our future and a memory of our past. We can do better.
Neal Ambrose-Smith, descendent of the Confederated Salish and Kootenai Nation of Montana, is a contemporary Native American
painter, sculptor, printmaker, and Professor at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe, New Mexico. He has also developed an app Artist Ideas with 100 ideas for making art, available for Android and Apple.
His work is included in the collections of many national and international museums and institutions, including the New York Public Library, the Smithsonian National Museum of the American Indian, Galerie municipale d’art contemporain in Chamalières, France, and Hongik University in Seoul, Korea. He received his BA from the University of Northern Colorado and MFA from the University of New Mexico.
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