I Met My Soul, Thomas Iksiraq (Inuit, Baker Lake), 1998 Woodcut + Stencil, Pencil Signed Print (ed. 40) bull fighter I'd guess it was likely

I'd guess it was likely a figure study for a larger painting

and he is great fun to animate

with a few smudges to the white of the paper but the drawing clear and strong

There's a corresponding trail of nail punched holes (recesses) running along side them

I love the patch of white at top

I Met My Soul, Thomas Iksiraq (Inuit, Baker Lake), 1998 Woodcut + Stencil, Pencil Signed Print (ed. 40) bull fighter I'd guess it was likelyI found this one on Ebay, purchased from a dealer in Canada; I'm always on the hunt for original Inuit drawings, and while this is a print (woodcut with stencil; edition of 40), I think it has the immediacy of a drawing, and it just completely leapt out to me, so strikingly graphic, and unusual feeling too, almost surrealist in sensibility. (I think of Man Ray's Indestructible Object, the metronome with photograph of Lee Miller's eye, ticking back and