Canadian Woman Artists Series #4
May 4, 2008
WASAKECHAK
A description of this work by Buffy St. Marie:
This looks like a real black and white (greyscale) photograph of an impossible not quite human creature. The Trickster is described in countless Native legends as the sacred fool, who is in turn dangerous, obscene, and funny. My image which I call “the only known photo of the Trickster” isn’t at all obscene, although there is something somewhat gluteus maximus about the face; but it is mostly curious. It is available as an Iris print; however, it can be installed backlit as a semi-opaque Ilfordchrome, framed in an old weathered window frame so that it appears he’s looking in the window of a reservation house. Life size.
