Herring People — Man I, II, III, IV

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Media: Hand-pulled Serigraph

Year: 2016

Edition I: 1 - 145/145 s/n

Edition II: 1 - 55/55 s/n

Edition III: 1 - 55/55 s/n

Edition IV: 1 - 45/45 s/n

Herring People — Man

Iinang Xaadee—Herring People play a vital role in the ecosystem. They nurture, feed, give of themselves to keep beings alive in all realms—undersea, earth, and sky. When balance prevails, Herring People gather to dance in their great longhouse in such great numbers and with such vigour that the atmosphere overhead reverberates with their excitement. Now, Human Beings see Herring solely as a resource, blinded, not seeing their true value, only seeing monetary gain at the expense of the whole.

‘Let me see you, so that I can tell your story.’ These words fly with an arcing toss into the ether as I traverse the natural world with thoughts turned to encountering the Supernatural. Long ago Iihlangaa—Young Man looked inside as the Herring People danced in their great longhouse. As he withdrew, he tasted the eggs spawned onto his facial hair: revulsed, he threw his moustache away with the eggs. Then, experimentally, he broke off a hemlock branch and pushed it into the house, and upon pulling it out he tasted the eggs laid thick on the needles. He smiled, enjoying the flavour and knowing that when the Herring danced they would sustain him.