Happy FAMILY DAY to all citizens of Ontario! (such an exciting new holiday!!!!!)

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Joyce Wieland - Bear and Spirit of Canada 1971 bronze, 8 x 19.5 x13.2 cm

I just received a violent dangerous enraged email from Anthony Easton, the sort of email that feels like a chair has been thrown at your head. (The kind I send out all the time) He demanded to know: "HOW COME YOU NEVER TOLD ME THAT JOYCE WEILAND DID A SCULPTURE WHERE THE SPIRIT OF CANADA IS FUCKED BY A BEAR"

Well, knowledge is power in the short run, dear heart, and we withhold a lot of information on this blog in order to manipulate everyone's feelings the market.

- L.M. 2-18-2008 9:33 pm

Happy Family Day Lorna!

I am glad to have you in my art family.
I also find Joyce Wieland's "Bear and
Spirit of Canada" (1971) bronze, thrilling!!!

xo Carla
- anonymous (guest) 2-18-2008 9:51 pm


Thanks Carla. I should do a longer post of Wieland's images. (even though she was canonised as a Canadian Art Saint, a lot of people don't see her stuff anymore)
- L.M. 2-18-2008 10:23 pm


I was thinking we should change "Family Day" to "Pet Day." Weiland's sculptures can still be our mascots, though.
- sally mckay 2-19-2008 6:52 am


I would like to change the name to "Family of One Day". That is one amazing sculpture.
- C.R. (guest) 2-19-2008 9:13 pm


I wish it was life sized and installed in the tulip patch on Parliament Hill.
- L.M. 2-19-2008 9:56 pm


i was going to do a riff of her venus of scarborough (CCCA link) called cerne abbas of king street, but then i got to this line in the application: "Submissions that include socially unacceptable elements (text and/or images) will not be considered "


- anthony (guest) 2-19-2008 11:48 pm


Cerne

detail_cerne

Yup, it's a boy.
- L.M. 2-20-2008 12:14 am


Maybe he's just jealous is more likely!!
- Andrew Harwood (guest) 2-20-2008 12:58 am


Maybe what that bear wants from the spirit of canada is nothing more than a blueberry fritter.
http://www.igorilla.com/gorilla/animal/2001/bear_with_sweet_tooth.html
- rob (guest) 2-20-2008 6:35 am


deliverance
- L.M. 2-20-2008 9:31 am


I think we just tied in blueberries and bear fluffing quite nicely.
- L.M. 2-20-2008 9:33 am


whats happening in that pic?
- anthony (guest) 2-20-2008 4:09 pm


do you need assistance? (ya gotta watch to the end)

- sally mckay 2-20-2008 7:27 pm





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